Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded



#11 Oct 12, 2013 3:44 pm
WittZi WittZi Offline
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Subject: Re: Android Version!?
In this case they have a space at the bottom of the App where advertisements are being dished up via Google AdMob, so it is fully commercial.
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#12 Oct 15, 2013 11:30 am
beko beko Offline
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Subject: Re: Android Version!?
Quote by Jarod42:
Quote by beko:
MAXR is and will always be free of commercials as long as I have my fingers on this.
With GPL, you still may sell the application (as long as you respect the GPL rules, so mainly give source).
But it is true that when the application (with source) can be found for free (no money),
it is harder to provide the same with a price :-)

The point is not the selling but the removal of the authors file.

It's presented as "own" software which it is in fact not.

It's not shipped with the GPL and only selected data is provided from an own download mirror.

The modified source is not provided as it should. It's not even mentioned that one should be able to request the source.

One can not clearly see the real origin of the software and that's blunt shameless.

It also brings in a damn lot of confusion for people that know maxr since an own version scheme is used on the Android version but the name, logo and even the description are simply copied from here. This is no way to 'fork' a project. It's fraud.

I guess the only reason that one can still click on the Manifest button in the main menu is lack of knowledge how to remove that.

Guy did the same to at least one other project "simutrans". That app was removed so I guess he did something similar here and the simutrans guys managed to remove it from the store.

Sadly I have no damn time to dig into this further at the moment.
Bernd Kosmahl
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#13 Oct 16, 2013 9:19 am
Jarod42 Offline
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Subject: Re: Android Version!?
I didn't write they respect the GPL.
Just that with GPL, we can still sell the application...

I remember a site which sold firefox (legally!).

Not sure how GPL (doesn't) works with the app stores, since normal users cannot recompile...
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#14 Oct 16, 2013 1:55 pm
beko beko Offline
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Subject: Re: Android Version!?
Store itself should be fine. A Wesnoth dev does iirc the same.
Bernd Kosmahl
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#15 Oct 21, 2013 4:12 pm
beko beko Offline
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Subject: Re: Android Version!?
Google doesn't care or even react. As suspected. The complainant button is eyecandy only Sad
Bernd Kosmahl
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