Publishing Matt634's Galactic Navy OXP
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 4:38 pm
I intend to do this in a week's time unless somebody can come up with a really convincing argument as to why not!
Why?
It is a really important OXP (as witnessed by the plethora of ancillary OXPs being written for it as recently as Rungholds 2017 Sec Com Finder - and it is still being incorporated into other OXP's such as Phkb's GalCop Galactic Registry and Library's PAD) which fell into oblivion with the introduction of the in-game Expansions Manager and the decision not to publish it because of lack of copyright.
The original versions came out over 6 months before May 2007. Copyright became an issue after the Sung Affair in Feb 2007 - and Matt634 ignored the arguments (despite studying for a law degree and eventually going to work as a lawyer for the USAF). He was then happy for Nemoricus to take it over and publish his newer versions.
Crucially, the point being made in those arguments was that Sung could withdraw his models because he had kept the copyright to them.
Matt634 on the other hand was publicising his OXP and his strapline at the bottom of each of his posts does so too (v.4.0). He never changed it.
So it should be perfectly all right to publish Nemoricus's "authorised update" of Matt's work (as his work) on the Expansions Manager (we can always take it down if he changes his mind!).
I intend to put up Spara's GN "unauthorised update" at the same time.
With GN up - and with the recent permissions from KW and Murgh, the only remaining copyright holdout with a number of "lost" OXPs seems to be RyanHoots whose new career as an "EntrePUNeur" might have led him to obscure his Oolite youth.
Why?
It is a really important OXP (as witnessed by the plethora of ancillary OXPs being written for it as recently as Rungholds 2017 Sec Com Finder - and it is still being incorporated into other OXP's such as Phkb's GalCop Galactic Registry and Library's PAD) which fell into oblivion with the introduction of the in-game Expansions Manager and the decision not to publish it because of lack of copyright.
The original versions came out over 6 months before May 2007. Copyright became an issue after the Sung Affair in Feb 2007 - and Matt634 ignored the arguments (despite studying for a law degree and eventually going to work as a lawyer for the USAF). He was then happy for Nemoricus to take it over and publish his newer versions.
Crucially, the point being made in those arguments was that Sung could withdraw his models because he had kept the copyright to them.
Matt634 on the other hand was publicising his OXP and his strapline at the bottom of each of his posts does so too (v.4.0). He never changed it.
So it should be perfectly all right to publish Nemoricus's "authorised update" of Matt's work (as his work) on the Expansions Manager (we can always take it down if he changes his mind!).
I intend to put up Spara's GN "unauthorised update" at the same time.
With GN up - and with the recent permissions from KW and Murgh, the only remaining copyright holdout with a number of "lost" OXPs seems to be RyanHoots whose new career as an "EntrePUNeur" might have led him to obscure his Oolite youth.