Mog

As you already know, Mog's Blog is continuously expanding to accommodate more people throughout the JKA community. In part of this strategy, I have made Masta (aka P!ng) to be co-contributor for Mog's Blog and he has announced a new article series called "The ABC's of Competitive Play". Lovely image by the way... Anyways, in this series...Masta will go over core elements of the competitive community of JKA, and he will explain to those outside of that community the things that makes the competitive community tick and tock. I am gladly looking forward to his work and will therefore be promoting his articles in the weeks and months to follow. You can view is introductory post here: http://mogblog.jkhub.org/the-abc-of-competitive-play/ Anyways, that's all advertisement wise...I'm sure P!ng will chime in and give more input, but I've said what was needed. Enjoy the rest of the day! Mog

Welcome to the Hub!

Despite my love for JKA, I have always been a fan of JKO more than JKA. To put it simply...I enjoyed the story and I enjoyed the vibrant community that was created.

I agree with afiNity; so long as we give proper credit, we should be able to upload files from other users whom are not on JKHub.

It sounds like what our download section is for. Why not modify our download section to accommodate this kind of stuff?

Welcome to the Hub! We hope you enjoy our community!

Welcome to the Hub!

It's a good idea to have a separate section for general coding talk. It would benefit alot of people.

Also, it's hard to define what exactly IS allowed. Copyright laws are an international pass-time these days. It's hard to not find some place on the net that has a rebellious belief about them. However, many of those beliefs are mis-interpretations on what the law actually states. I would think that, yes, it IS illegal to use assets that don't belong to you...so long as you don't literally copy and paste the game files, rename it as something else, claim it as your own and make money off of it. If you're talking about taking the assets, modifying the code to change certain elements, but then citing that code as belonging to a third party and only taking credit in editing that code...then no one is going to go after you. The only issue with that is if you decide to claim everything as being your own, and not of the third party. It's one of the reason why modders are not dragged off to Federal Prisons; they modify the code, but still cite the original makers of the code, and only claim responsibility for the modification. As for the OpenJK project, it is totally legal. All that's being done is using the resources that RavenSoft released and using it to modify and fix the current issues that are presents. As long as those working on the project take credit on the modification itself and not the entirety of the assets, then no legal issues will pop up.

That's even assuming people will follow those laws. Unless they sell their product on the open market, I highy doubt this will be enforced.

That will be quite useful for future projects.

I'm pretty sure no one has to worry. Ravensoft will place the codes back online as soon as they remove the illegal content, which shouldn't take that long.

Welcome to the Hub! It's good to see more modders arriving to continue their work! You will find that with the release of the source code, it will make things much, much easier.

This will most certainly bring in a huge amount of new and old players into JKA and JKO, not only that, but it will also grab the attention to more freelance game coders to toy around with the engine. What we need now, is to start getting those on Steam to pick up the game and start playing and/or modding.

Welcome to the Hub!