On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-2] Tom�? Janou?ek wrote:
> Hello, > > Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:33:57PM +0200 Dominic napsal: > > This whole discussion is pointless, as long as there's no response from > > valve if they'll allow such activities. Even if it's legal (in some > > countries, at least) to modify the hlds in a way that it continues to work > > after the won-shutdown, the EULA grants valve to terminate your hlds > > license any time they like. > Anyway, we don't modify HLDS binary, it's libraries or anything in the hlds > folder. We don't even modify it in runtime. We just modify the dynamic linking > process. My point was that they preserved themself the right to terminate the license whenever they want - as long as there's no response from valve, telling us that it's ok to use hl without won, it doesn't matter whether there's a way to do so. > > > Of course, I'm unsure wether such unilateral license terms pass the > > restrictions some countries laws may impose on EULAs, but I guess none of > > us is in the position to fight valve or their publishers on this field. > > Also, some of the activities required to produce such a no-won environment > > might be considered illegal, if valve proves that doing so circumvents > > their protection schemes (WON authentication). > That's true. If Valve will not want me to write security patches for their > software, I won't ;) Talking about your security patch: It's as incomplete as mine and Luigi's. But as I read Valves statement about closing WON by the end of this month, I didn't bother with fixing more than necessary for the hlboom PoC. If you're interested mail me off-list, or get in touch with me on quakenet, #vmaster. > -- > .------ Tom�? Janou?ek alias Liskni_si ------. > | NOMI team, developer, http://{www,tomi}.nomi.cz/ | > ' [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#161807083, tel.: +420608876277 ' > Regards, Dominic _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
