NiGHTMARE
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Linguica said:
hahah they are all so stupid
seriously no one gives a shit. they wanted to feel like a big man so they emailed id asking for grandiose "official" permission, and when hollenshead said "uhhhh wtf i dont know read the eula" they get all scared and run away.
Hooray for getting coming to totally incorrect conclusions and making utterly false statements based on a complete absence of accurate and relevant facts.
One of our team members, namely Risen, has believed that using modified textures & sprites is illegal for several years now. This is why, towards the end of Twice Risen's life, he ended up dumping the entire TR texture wad and using a load of textures from various fan-made Quake texture packs instead.
The fact KDIZD also uses modified levels got Risen so worried that he decided to e-mail ID asking for their opinion on things, without even telling the rest of the KDIZD team about his plan before-hand.
For some reason Risen didn't quote the entirety of his e-mails to/from ID, but what he did post sounded extremely vague - Todd Hollenshead saying "we can't make an exception to the EULA".
None of the KDIZD team have "run away". A couple of team members did have unncessary panic attacks at first, but are now considering creating a new texture wad entirely from scratch (which will of course add several months to the project's development time).
Personally, I very much doubt ID even have a problem with modified textures & sprites. I believe what Todd was referring to was the levels themselves, not realizing that the Doom license actually grants permission to modify them. I also think the only reason the license doesn't specifically mention textures, sprites, music, etc is because at the time the license was written (for the v1.666 patch), extremely few wads actually had new textures, sprites, music, etc.
We really need to try to get a far less vague response from ID.
Last edited by NiGHTMARE on 03-02-05 at 11:31
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