Konami: Copyright - is ygopro illegal?

Fluorohydride / ygopro

A script engine for "yu-gi-oh!" and sample gui

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Konami: Copyright - is ygopro illegal? #100

Closed i-vntp closed 12 years ago

i-vntp commented 12 years ago

Hi, First of all thank you for this great application. There is only one thing that bothers me. Coming from Germany, you need to have the agreement from Konami, in order to develop and publish a fangame for free or commercial. Do you have the rights? Currently I'm working on a server software for the game, but I can't host it, until I know, if the game/source isn't legally.

Please reply. I-vntp

jTiKey commented 12 years ago

lol what?

the game has nothing exept of scripts of actions. This does have nothing with konami. You can't autorise actions. Its the same if I name piece of papers and play with them yu-gi-oh.

Surely, this isn't official. Official is YGO:Online.

benblub commented 12 years ago

Hallo vntp, schön zu sehen das ygopro auch in Deutschland langsam mehr Fans findet. Melde dich doch einfach bei uns ansonsten musst hier einfach unterscheiden.. die sourcefiles hier auf gthub sind nur codesnippets da hat Tikey schon recht. Kartenbilder zB stehen unter Konami Lizenz aber diese werden hier nicht mit angeboten. kontaktieren kannst mich über www.ygopro.de

MFG

ghost commented 12 years ago

then duelingnetwork.com would be illegal too..

anyways, there already are servers for it, there is 1 Chinese, 1 English and 1 from Taiwan I think