I mean, its a lofty issue because I can see where now there is a problem. If someone was sure that this game contained code from Ultrapower, now they could have changed it without changing much of the behind the scenes code, but making it look and feel differently. So, how do we know now, I don't think its an issue of Mason either wanting to forgive them or not, that ship has long since sailed. I think its an issue of determining if the game is still using stolen code, and I'm not sure we can do that. The only way I would know how to go about it is to ask the developers to allow someone access to their source to audit their code and determine if UP code is in there, but this person would have to be someone we all trust, and they would have to have experience with UP code, so when you put all those together, its a hard to grasp situation.
Me, I think this shit is downright ridiculous. I don't understand code theft and why someone would practice it, its a shortcut, and its cutting corners, and you can't do that shit if you want your product to turn out good. Think about when you release your game with other people's code in it, now you have nothing to be proud of, because its tainted, where if you would have taken the extra time to study and learn, and then coded your own system, now you do have something to be proud of. Now, I'm not talking about stuff you either have permission to use, or publicly available classes or includes, that's different. I'm talking about using code you should never have had access to, like leaked source code. So now looking at the chain, there are two black patches, see, the developer who made the game that the other developer stole from, that guy, the original guy trusted someone they should not have, or they got hacked, or something and the source code got leaked, maybe not their fault, maybe it is, but now you have two issues.
Code your own shit people, take the time to debug it, only use resources and assets you have permission to use, and give credit to shit that has attribution in their license. Do that, and keep working to improve it and we'll love you forever.
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