• Console_Modder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Just a quick question, why? Is it because Take2 or Rockstar will come after anyone that they think copied their code, or are there a lot of bad practices used in GTA5’s code?

      • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Because even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.

        And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.

            • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 years ago

              Yes they do. And they’d need to look at your source code to prove you copied theirs. It’d be basically impossible to prove unless you were stupid enough to have the GTA V source code on your work machine.

              Peep the code on a website, and they’ll have no evidence and the case will get dismissed for being frivolous. Do you think Rockstar is omniscient? People look at the source code, then leave the company for a competitor every week.

              Code can’t even be patented, so unless you copy some propriety process for computing physics or something, that they have a patent on, then they really have no legal standing.

              This meme of “don’t look at it” is very ignorant to the reality of professional software development. Our memories aren’t wiped when we switch jobs and they’d have to prove you didn’t pick that idea up from another job, a forum, a colleague, or even a dream.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Now that the source code is “out there” it may be possible in the future for better mod support, fingers crossed.

    • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      “You have been banned from Rockstar Social Club.”

      But seriously, fuck their jank-ass forced integration.

        • Legendsofanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 years ago

          Wait, all mods have to go through that app? That’s total shite. Is there any way to launch it completely offline or would someone just have to pirate it?

  • 000@fuck.marketsEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody’s providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I know there’s nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info… We’re overdue for a forum Renaissance.

      • quo@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I’d be fine with a chat platform if it archived the logs and didn’t require real identity verification like Discord.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
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          3 years ago

          Even with logs they’re still a party because without threads it’s just questions getting twisted again and again and again without being able to refer the person to a previous part of the discussion where they could find all answers they need…

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
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          3 years ago

          Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that’s still where serious people go to talk about their field, but somehow there’s some fields where people have forgotten that.

          • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 years ago

            You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run

            Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles