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Urban Terror Code Stolen
New submitter herbalt writes "The code of the free FPS game Urban Terror (a standalone game based on a Quake 3 mod), has been stolen. The development team, Frozen Sand, at first stated their Git Repository had been hacked, but later issued an announcement stating the perpetrator of the leak was a member of the development team. Frozen Sand also states they have found chat logs indicating there had been 'a plot to get B1naryTh1ef to steal the code so they could sell Urban Terror under a different name on Steam.'"
If Frozen Sand no longer have the code for Urban Terror then it has been stolen. If they still have the code then it has been copied.
1) It sounds like the code was copied. Still wrong, but "stolen" makes it sound like they can't possibly go on with their project, because they don't have the code they wrote anymore.
2) I'm sure it would be easy to work with Steam and say "don't accept any games that come through based on XYZ code" in this case. On the other hand, Steam has given very few shits about extremely iffy projects in the past.
Open source fanboys are all the same... "make it open source, make it open source."
Make your own stuff and put it out there for free first. Until you have made a solid commercial grade piece of software open source you need to STFU and do your own part. Stop crying for others to make their stuff open to you.
Copyright infringement is theft, plain and simple: you take without permission. That you create a copy in the process is irrelevant: you are still nothing but a common thief.
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