zorin

Hi ive just finished making a game and want to hide the credits so that I can give my source code to other people but dont want them to say they have done the project, Is there anyway to hide this information.
Thanks

Ooble

If it's good, they will get round whatever protection you use. Just open-source it under the GPL or LGPL, and decent people won't bother.

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zorin

What so there is no protection that I can use to protect my program, I thought there must be somthing that can stop people taking credit for my work.

Thanks

zorin

Another thing who juges what rank people get ect- newbie, programming guru, expert programmer or do you have to make a certain number of posts of somthing.

Ooble

It's based purely on post count.

If you release this game on SourceForge, anyone who hacks it and doesn't give you credit will instantly be forced out of the community. Everyone will know you created it - you released it on SF first!

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Berto

yup all you can do is release it on SF put a GPL licences with it, possibly burn it to a cd and if someone triues to clai its theres sue the arse off of them.

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Rory

You could put a credits page in the source code as a comment, structure the code in a way that is uniquely "yours" (confuscation) or include redundant (non-executed) code as a "signature". However, I wouldn't bother. There are more sophisticated techniques, but fundamentally, as you're dealing with human intelligable source code (unless you precompile some of your functions into a DLL for example) anything you've done can be undone if the person's that bothered.

Really though if the code's that popular, you could market it or get paid by the FSF, and some 12 year old stealing your code wouldn't be a problem.

You can go into the backstabbing copy protection wierdness, but then you're going down the Redmond path, and really there's no point.

Just put your sig on the modules: if someone removes it, who cares?

Pizentios

or if your worried about somebody taking credit for it, don't release the source code. Just binarys.

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bl00dninja

if you don't want it in there, then don't fucking put it there. duh.

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Berto

Ah but that destroys the love. You need to share the love(love = code)

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