Mario Adventure

[Zion]

The sprites are from the Mario and Luigi game on the GBA/DS and you are using the Mario IP. The fact that you are not selling it is moot, all it means is that you are less likely to get caught and sent a C&D mail. The same applies for all the other projects such as Linken's Quest and Sora's Adventure.

Im sick of this bull$#@!.

you find me someone who will make sprites for a whole game and i wont use them.

IF your not selling it, illegal or not i dont give a toss and could care less.

Im sick of bull$#@! copyright talk on this site with people flaming a release just becuase there was no source released under the gpl licence or is using official sprites, get over it.

its total bull$#@! and very annoying.

gpl & using sprites = i dont care

[Apoklepz]

Yeah, he should be fine if he credits Nintendo for the sprites, though...I don't think Nintendo would even bother messing with somebody using their game sprites for a little game that ain't even getting profit out of...It's not that serious, or that big a deal either...Just make a splash screen somewhere before the game that credits the actual game's sprite owners, in this case Nintendo, and you should be fine...Even though I have nothing against him, Yaustar just seems to be pretty anal about these things, that's all.

[D0N]

To be honest, I don't really care about sprites either. It wouldn't really be much of a Mario game if I used some other sprites.

[yaustar]

Im sick of this bull$#@!.

you find me someone who will make sprites for a whole game and i wont use them.

IF your not selling it, illegal or not i dont give a toss and could care less.

Im sick of bull$#@! copyright talk on this site with people flaming a release just becuase there was no source released under the gpl licence or is using official sprites, get over it.

its total bull$#@! and very annoying.

gpl & using sprites = i dont care

He asked a question, I answered it with facts not opinions. You may not care, but someone else and law does. The facts may or may not match my opinion.

I managed to find graphics, fonts and assets which I had full authors permission to use for Dance2x so I personally can't see the problem.

If you use GPL'ed code, there is a VERY strict license that you must obey if you use the code. There are no exceptions and as well as being frowned upon by the Open source community, it is also against the law. In short, it is the same as stealing code.

What splodger means is if its copyrighted or not?
anyone know this.

i think its okay if you dont sell the game?

The sprites are from the Mario and Luigi game on the GBA/DS and you are using the Mario IP. The fact that you are not selling it is moot, all it means is that you are less likely to get caught and sent a C&D mail. The same applies for all the other projects such as Linken's Quest and Sora's Adventure.

Apoklepz: I am not being anal about it, I am presenting him with the facts. If you read my reply, you find my opinion on using sprite rips isn't in there.

[S34MU5]

Okay.....

dont no waht "moot" is....

but wer gona release it anyway

[yaustar]

"The fact that you are not selling it is moot."

Read as:

"The fact that you are not selling it is besides the point."

In short, technically it is against the law but it is something that you can get away with without any rebuttal.

[Shadowblind]

I dont know what the heck your talkin about people. If borrowing sprites for non-profit is illegal, then why is making a copy of a Game in free distribution legal?

In short, it may not be totally legal, but I highly doubt they would care if they dont even care about people using sprites on Flash Games for websites.

[yaustar]

why is making a copy of a Game in free distribution legal?

Not 100% sure what you mean by this. If you mean cloning a game, then it isn't legal. You are very likely infringing on the owner's IP.

If borrowing sprites for non-profit is illegal

It's illegal because you are breaking copyright. Whether the owner will care or not is their decision not ours.

[Shadowblind]

Not 100% sure what you mean by this. If you mean cloning a game, then it isn't legal. You are very likely infringing on the owner's IP.

Makes me wonder why they install CD burners on most new computers.

[Zion]

I managed to find graphics, fonts and assets which I had full authors permission to use for Dance2x so I personally can't see the problem.

try finding some zelda ones that dont look like crap.

Aslo please stop bitching about the owners "ip"

i would personally love to see the day when nintendo, sega or sony send someone a C & D
to tell them to stop making a LUA game.

Comon stop being a kill joy moaner and let people enjoy making these games.

after all lua games are only made and played for FUN its not like many lua games are Halo 3 remakes.

Get real