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First, thank you very much for answering, and secondly, sorry for my rather impolite postings to this forum.
I have to make a few things clear:
1. I don't understand your idea of making a free program, and still hoping to get paid of it. People have the source, and they will use it. If they want to make a game based on your engine, they won't use your code directly, but instead take a look at it and clone it. If there, however, is someone, who could pay for your engine, I believe he will do it all by himself, from scratch.And yes, GPL would mean that you couldn't get paid from your engine anymore, but the problem is that you must decide one thing: whether you distribute this Racer game completely for free, or make it a commercial product (which wouldn't make much sense these days, someone just gets pissed of and makes a free one). I understand that the main reason you createdR acer is to get a *free* racing game, without having to pay from those commercials monsters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but believe me, if you won't do a free racing game, someone else will
(I'll just have to wait a while...) The reason why I care about this so
much, is the fact that my heart cries when a game with so much potential - a great game - is being raped with such licenses which eventually won'tgive anything to anyone. I think we, the free software developers, should really get rid of this half-commercial software development, which just makes everyone sad. You see, I still remember the days in old (good?) DOS, where you had to pay for everything good. I think that really should be over by now.
2. You were also afraid of people screwing up the source. Well, think
again: Why are such projects as Linux or KDE possible? They both use CVSsystem! The answer: you can still personally examine and accept the source code modifications. Linus Torwalds controls Linux source code, which means that every modification goes through him. And what is Linux today?
In sourceforge, for example, it is *your* privilege to maintain the code - if that is what you want. Someone else could make yet another sourceforge(sourceforge is just a good example...) project page for it, yes, but who cares, since this wouldn't be the official Racer project.
In conclusion, I don't understand what is so bad with GNU General Public License and open source software in general. Perhaps you just haven't heard about it enough? Try Linux sometimes and you will see, that there's yet another world, right above the commercial Windows world.
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