Just reported it.
Anybody got a link?
I looked at their website and i don’t see they registered a trademark, so unless steam terms of service somehow forbid this kind of thing i don’t think they can do anything.
I will probably get downvoted to hell for this, but i don’t think there is anything morally wrong with this, a guy did some work and paid some money to put on steam, I would actually like this done with more games because then i could use steam review system to get an impression about how good is the game (steam can show recent reviews, and reviews by people who played the game a lot). They agreed to this kind of thing by using the licenses they choose.
Maybe legal grey area, but as already implied in the tweet: you don’t know what might be in the binaries. Could be all kind of spyware or worse and to many people it will not be clear that this is from an untrustworthy source.
yeah, some open source devs do this themselves - if you want (for example) DAVx5 or Nextcloud Deck from the Google store, they’re paid apps, if you get them via F-Droid, binary downloads off their version control, or compile yourself, they’re free.
it’s a little shady doing it with someone else’s work, especially when it sounds like the publisher didn’t contact the 0.A.D. developers first (or at all), but, well, the license is meant to be a clear (if lengthy) statement about what you’re allowed do do with someone’s stuff, I think it’s fair to say that 0.A.D. should choose a different licence if they want to disallow this.
idk maybe this situation will help folks realise that the GPL and friends can be pretty welcoming to business exploitation and maybe the “zeroth freedom” mught just be libertarian garbage
