We all are or will be against Valve's license ? I've just found this in Valve's SDK license...
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2. Term.
2.1 Term. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date Licensee downloads or installs the SDK and shall expire 1 year after such date.
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What....They only allow us to use the SDK for only 1 year ?
anyway it has this:
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2.3 Survival. Sections 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3, and 3-5 shall survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement.
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...but that doesn't include section 1.1:
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1.1 License Grant. Valve hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, terminable, worldwide, nontransferable license to:
(a) use, reproduce and modify the SDK in source code form, solely to develop a Mod; and
(b) reproduce, distribute and license the Mod in object code form, solely to licensed end users of Half-Life, without charge.
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Does this means we are not allowed to 'use, reproduce and modify' the SDK code or 'reproduce, distrubute' MODs or bots at all after 1 year since the time we downloaded the SDK ? omg... hmmm, looks like Valve can kill us any time they want, since this is a LEGAL document and not GNU GPL or so (the GPL seems to be more a moral canon than a legal document, i.e., you can't
take someone to court for violating the GPL)
Also downloading a new SDK won't help either...
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1.2 Updates. Valve may from time to time, in its sole discretion, provide updates, error corrections, and future versions of the SDK to Licensee. Upon delivery, such updates, error corrections and future versions shall be deemed part of the SDK, as applicable, under this Agreement.
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I'm also not sure whether debug_engine in HPB_bot is reverse engineering...
if so, we're all in another big danger...