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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by happymellon on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:57PM (#36555709)
Why would parents prevent publishing of source code?

Unless you mean that someone could see that you implemented their patent and retroactively go to sue them?

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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by favorited on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:01PM (#36555750)
A license to use someone else's code doesn't necessarily include permission to publish the source.
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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by happymellon on Sunday July 02, 2023 @04:02AM (#36559344)
A patent isn't permission to use their code, that would be a copyright.

A patent is a method, not an implementation.

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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by favorited on Sunday July 02, 2023 @04:54AM (#36559642)
We’re not talking about patents. Software licenses are about me allowing you to use code that I wrote, which is copyright.
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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by happymellon on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:24AM (#36560399)
Literally the person I initially responded to said:

> The only problem might be the software patents that their code leverages.

We are talking about patents because Wengo brought it up and I was asking how they are applicable here.

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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by paulmd on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:10PM (#36566778)
If the licensed code was written by a patent licensee, then to replicate it in-house you’d also need to license the patent yourself.
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