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Legality Question

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 21:48
by metroid014
Hey Guys,

From what I have learnt to fix the Thing Clipping Issue I need to put the sprites in my WAD and raise the Y offset. However would it be legal for me to copy ID Softwares sprites into my WAD? If I did so, the WAD would still be unplayable without the original IWAD, but still...?

Re: Legality Question

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 22:29
by Gez
The Doom user license does allow you to distribute modified assets as long as it's non-commercial and exclusively for use with Doom.

So, yeah, it's fine.

Re: Legality Question

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 23:12
by metroid014
If by modified assets you are referring to the WAD as a whole. I know. However if you are referring to the sprites, well then it isn't really modified... its just raising the Y offset. Still the same.

Re: Legality Question

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:32
by Gez
Asset = sound or music or graphic or level or whatever else.

Modified sprites? That's modified assets. Modified sounds? Same. Changing one thing, even if it's just the offset, is still modifying it.

The "wad as a whole" would never be okay since it could be used without the game.

Re: Legality Question

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:30
by Enjay
metroid014 wrote:From what I have learnt to fix the Thing Clipping Issue I need to put the sprites in my WAD and raise the Y offset.
You don't need to. You can do it but you can also change sprite clipping to "always" in the options menu.

Re: Legality Question

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:02
by metroid014
Enjay wrote:
metroid014 wrote:From what I have learnt to fix the Thing Clipping Issue I need to put the sprites in my WAD and raise the Y offset.
You don't need to. You can do it but you can also change sprite clipping to "always" in the options menu.
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