[Tux4kids-discuss] Tux Mind Maths

[Amey Agrawal]

Hey Akshay,

The examples mentioned in the above mail once again stand as a proof of
concept, the concept that "copyright protects the expression of an idea,
but not the idea itself". Most of the games available on online registries
do not fit under copyright infringement because they only share idea with
original product in consideration not the content.

I suppose you have not been through my proposal toughly enough, following
are the quotes form the the copy proposal on github,

   - "Tux Mind Math will be themed to intra-galactic space adventure"
   - "I have made two of the games proposed as demos, namely pacman and
   snake.Graphics for the same have not be developed yet."
   - "1-10th June: Goal: Designing graphics for all games and the UI"

Further more you the designs for the UI give a pretty well picture.
Being involved with GSoC i believe you must be well versed with procedures
for reporting an issue on a github repository, Also a mail
directly addressed to an individual need not be posted in a mailing list.
Sure I do see conflict of interest in your possible purposes. Anyways
thanks for suggestions.
Regards,
Amey


On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:58 PM, akshay agarwal <
akshay.agarwal at st.niituniversity.in> wrote:

> Hi Amey,
>
> This was not offend you but just to give you a suggestion.
>
> I have myself been developing games for the past 5 years and I know a hell
> lot of such cases being happening each and every day. The scratch issue was
> something that I read back in 2011 or 2012 I don't exactly remember the
> date. Also if you are referring to the Google Doodle Pacman then it was
> done taking permission from NAMCO and even if not, NAMCO didn't raise any
> issue and it's their wish.
>
> The thing is there are a lot of copyright infringement taking place all
> over the play store and google itself is a little confused on how to deal
> with them. But clones being available in the market doesn't mean one is
> allowed to do that. One cannot sit with the notion that such incidences do
> not occur and when someone is making something of a GSoC level then such
> incidences have to kept in mind.
>
> Moreover yes you are correct that anyone can be motivated and inspired by
> any of the games and is free to say that he is going to make games based on
> a particular game, he in any case cannot use the artworks or artworks
> having similar resemblance to the original ones. Anyone going through you
> proposal might come under the impression them you might be going to make
> replicas or use artwork similar to the original ones, at-least by seeing
> your demos and by reading your timeline where you have mentioned the use of
> those demos in the original project. You have thought of making unique
> graphics that's good, but no one can know what you are thinking. You could
> have been a little clearer on that in the graphics section. Also your
> pacman demo hosted on GitHub is doing a copyright infringement though NAMCO
> might not have any time to look out for you.
>
> You could have straightly told me that you intend to use unique graphics
> in the original project instead of pointing out what I need to do or
> explaining me how copyrights works. I am no one to judge your proposal as
> it is all on the mentors and you are not accountable to me. I just wanted
> to give you suggestions for your welfare only. I think you didn't replied
> back this way to the mentor's suggestions
>
> Thanking You,
> Akshay Agarwal
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tux4kids-discuss mailing list
> Tux4kids-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux4kids-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/tux4kids-discuss/attachments/20160326/c1836f67/attachment-0001.html>