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Originally Posted by Deeek
(Post 1577594)
When I talked to him about continuing my work on his server he stated that he quit graal and has no interest in returning, which implies his abandoment of the project. It's hard to prove heresay, of course - but it's safe to assume that we had a mutual agreement that was implied that the rights would be returned to me if this happened instead of floating around in the twisting nether.
I think there's some language that needs to be addressed about this. Is there anything in the ToS that's related? I would think that with Graal this would be a pretty important topic, what with projects and such stealing other's ideas, graphics, scripts and such there would be some definitions laid out (assuming the statement that Stefan/Unixmad hold all rights to intellectual property on their servers is true).
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It used to spell it out quite clearly in the EULA but since the website change I've been unable to find it. Needless to say its been this way from day 1 and until such time as I'm told otherwise I'll enforce it the exact same way. Once uploaded to Graal it belongs to Graal. To break it down further, once uploaded to a server it belongs to that server. If a developer uploads something they made onto more than one server without first gaining permission from the original. We will check rc logs to see where it was first put up and give them the useage rights. If the original server no longer exists and there is no longer a record then there is obviously nothing we can do unless its known by others to have been a part of the now defunct server.
There is absolutely no way we can guarantee every script, image or tile to always remain the property of its original server. None of us have a photographic memory of every server ever developed for Graal. This is also why we will not start giving individual developers rights within themselves. It would make it that much harder to police. (And don't come back with the "you're just lazy" line) You should try to police this sometime, its not easy!
Dusty is entirely correct when he says its up to developers to be choosier where they work. There have been far too many removal demands just because some dev gets angry at an owner and demands their work be removed. Its their problem if they can't agree with a server owner/manager, not the PWA's. |
