Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'

KssioAug@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No? GitHub is owned by Microsoft

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    • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry you had to learn this way.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How on earth did you miss that? It was in the news for years, the biggest buyout with 69 BILLION dollars. It’s actually Activision-Blizzard-King, King being the company responsible for mobile game hits like Candy Crush (that’s why its in your start menu).

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      • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait! Does that mean King doesn’t have croquis Wednesday’s anymore?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s 2026. Everything is owned by like 4 companies

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah :(

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like Codeberg, but I don’t think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idea: we use torrents and go back to emailing eachother .patch files.

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      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And still use git, tho? Cuz that’s kind of the whole point of these sites.

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• myster0n@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He heard the call and did his duty

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    • KssioAug@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But was he prepared to be under overwatch?

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He should get a medal for his honor.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that’s at fault.

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  • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just finding something by accident doesn’t give you the right to publish it.

    If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay well would he at least be in less trouble than if he’d made any money off it?

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