Interestingly enough, if Atari were to take legal action and theoretically we challenged it and were able to prove that Atari knew of Spring's existence as a breach of copyright, Atari would lose its copyright over TA (or at least whatever we stole). If a company is aware of a copyright violation, the company is legally required to either take action to end the violation, or to abandon its copyright - hence why you see companies that are so intently focused on finding and ending any copyright violation whatsoever, for fear of losing their copyrights.Argh wrote:As for the whole issue of Spring and GPL, I'd say that Spring's core is pretty much free of non-GPL content at this point. Serving as a medium of distribution of content protected by international copyright law, such as the textures and sounds required by OTA mods, is probably not legal, but meh, Atari is not unaware that we exist, so I'm not exactly quaking in my boots, worried that the project is going to be shut down at this point.
Note that this is US law and Spring is "headquartered" in Sweden, which has different (more relaxed IIRC) copyright laws.
