I wasn't planning to post here again (wanna let it fade away) but I hate to see people argue and there are some points that maybe need clarifying:
Gotta confess I laughed too when I saw the comment about me making the source open source, I'm with Yan on this one. I don't think many people being offered some good money for their hard work (when they also really needed it having just moved country) would say, "nah I'm gonna give it away for free actually" :-) Of course people helped me but they did so willingly and I'm very grateful - but let's not forget the big effort I put into it myself too. Of course that's just the decision I've made and if others would've been noble enough to do something else if they were in my situation, then good for them.
Another point to clarify, I do have 200+ customers and have made about £6000 which would be terrible for 3 years work, but it was a side-income because I used the framework for 4 other games meanwhile. Also people (who paid) benefited from it and said it was good value for money, and they helped me to make it better. They won and I won. The only "losers" were people who did not take the opportunity to buy it when they could and moan about it now (these tall poppies or whatever haha); although of course many people didn't need it for their projects, and that's fine too.
The PD/forum posting part of the code was 3%, not 10% and it is not very critical to the framework, although some of it's neat. Some of the 3% is very short and/or functional and could have been written the same by 9/10 programmers
No one here will litigate over 20 lines of code, and nor will BFG - it would be pointless. Also even if they did read this stuff, they wouldn't be worried about it as they look at the bigger picture and I'm a valuable employee. I've done my best to do the right thing legally in this situation (remember I have only sold my code not the PD/forum code), so there's really nothing to worry about as I've explained about 50 times now.
As for lack of collaboration from other forum members, well I'd be sad if anyone really nice misread some of these threads (like only the bad made up stuff/assumptions and not my explanations) and didn't collaborate and I hope it won't happen. If anyone genuinely "has a problem" with me or what I did then I don't want to collaborate with them anyway - who wants to team up with negative people? There are certain forum members that often seem to act negatively or stir up fuss or even insult others, and then are quick to tell others not to do the same! haha. I usually ignore them and certainly would never want to collaborate with them. Some have even talked to me about getting a job at BFG forgetting that they've been rude to me or insulted me (and just about everyone else) in the past - it's funny and also sad for them that they just can't see it, or can see it but can't help it. On a positive note I have collaborated with many really nice people on this forum who by far outweigh the negative ones and that's great! This whole debacle has made me realise just how many nice people there who support me and who seem to have things in perspective (in my opinion). Thanks all!
Gotta confess I laughed too when I saw the comment about me making the source open source, I'm with Yan on this one. I don't think many people being offered some good money for their hard work (when they also really needed it having just moved country) would say, "nah I'm gonna give it away for free actually" :-) Of course people helped me but they did so willingly and I'm very grateful - but let's not forget the big effort I put into it myself too. Of course that's just the decision I've made and if others would've been noble enough to do something else if they were in my situation, then good for them.
Another point to clarify, I do have 200+ customers and have made about £6000 which would be terrible for 3 years work, but it was a side-income because I used the framework for 4 other games meanwhile. Also people (who paid) benefited from it and said it was good value for money, and they helped me to make it better. They won and I won. The only "losers" were people who did not take the opportunity to buy it when they could and moan about it now (these tall poppies or whatever haha); although of course many people didn't need it for their projects, and that's fine too.
The PD/forum posting part of the code was 3%, not 10% and it is not very critical to the framework, although some of it's neat. Some of the 3% is very short and/or functional and could have been written the same by 9/10 programmers
No one here will litigate over 20 lines of code, and nor will BFG - it would be pointless. Also even if they did read this stuff, they wouldn't be worried about it as they look at the bigger picture and I'm a valuable employee. I've done my best to do the right thing legally in this situation (remember I have only sold my code not the PD/forum code), so there's really nothing to worry about as I've explained about 50 times now.
As for lack of collaboration from other forum members, well I'd be sad if anyone really nice misread some of these threads (like only the bad made up stuff/assumptions and not my explanations) and didn't collaborate and I hope it won't happen. If anyone genuinely "has a problem" with me or what I did then I don't want to collaborate with them anyway - who wants to team up with negative people? There are certain forum members that often seem to act negatively or stir up fuss or even insult others, and then are quick to tell others not to do the same! haha. I usually ignore them and certainly would never want to collaborate with them. Some have even talked to me about getting a job at BFG forgetting that they've been rude to me or insulted me (and just about everyone else) in the past - it's funny and also sad for them that they just can't see it, or can see it but can't help it. On a positive note I have collaborated with many really nice people on this forum who by far outweigh the negative ones and that's great! This whole debacle has made me realise just how many nice people there who support me and who seem to have things in perspective (in my opinion). Thanks all!