• Rhodamine@lemmy.nz
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    3 years ago

    You can’t copyright game mechanics. So, if you replace the sprites with legally distinct ones and write the code yourself, there are no laws broken.

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      3 years ago

      Actually, you can, in counted cases Copyright Game Mechanics, see: Shadows of Mordor: Nemesis System and Bandai Namco “Auxiliary Games” (Mini-Games during Loading Screen)

      Creative Outlets as well as Game Developers could be sued if they made from scratch something remarkably similar to those Game Mechanics

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        3 years ago

        Those are patents. Patents are not copyright, although they both fall under the general umbrella of intellectual property protection.

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    3 years ago

    Pretty sure the answer is: Yes, since I believe it’s part of the open source project chromium, it would be under the same open source license.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      Chromium is BSD licensed, so you can do whatever you want with it. The dino game itself though might have a different copyright