just don't compare it to terrorism

> > > > > How do you copyright a mod?

> > > > Simple, same way you copyright a photo, add a text to it saying its copyrighted. Thats enough.

> > > > I also put "(C) Real Combat" on all voxels as well as a text on the site and TXT file saying that the elements of the mod may not be copied seperately from the rest of the mod and that its copyrighted.

> > > but if you took legal action, would it be possible to win, since, isn't it very technically somewhat illegal to mod games? but westwood supports it.. oh well
> > > /me falls over out of confusion (*thump*)

> > go read the thread at the eclipse forums, complicated stuff, i came down to the conclusion that 'copyright' when used here simply means 'legal crap', it's simply saying that what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours, nothing much to do with lawyers and judges and the police. but the real combat situation is complicated, now that the other 2 team members went to make true war, it means they have broken sniper's copyright, but they claim that they did most of the work anyway, so it's complicated


> Note that its not just them against me, there are more people working on the mod which also feel betrayed.
> Currently there are 6 people working on Real Combat (including me). These two members did not do most of the work.

> A simple comparisson:
> 2 Westwood employees leave Westwood and take with them all the files of a new unreleased game, start up their own company and continieu on this game to release it themselves.

> Now what would happen? These guys would get sued and the law would say they would not be allowed to continieu on the stolen work.
> Yes they worked on the game but by leaving they are no longer part of the game devellopment team and no longer have any share in the game.

> Lets say 5 freinds make a big model tank out of scratch, when the tank is about 80% 2 of the members leave the tank team and say they want to take with them the parts they put into that tank, whereas they gave it to the tank.

> Doesn't make any sense.
> I am an intern at an ICT company, I also work on websites and programs but these are not mine. If I would take these with me to release in my own company I set up that would be stealing, even though I worked on these programs and websites as well. I have done the most work on some of these websites but that does not mean I can take them with me.

> Same with mods, people work on the mod, the mod is owned by the mod team (in this case the Real Combat team) and all members work for this team. If you leave the team then you can't steal the mod to release it yourself.