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Purchasing the engine for a programmer

by nibbuls · in Torque Game Engine · 10/15/2005 (9:27 am) · 6 replies

I'm moving forward on my secret project, but in order to hire a programmer, I need to purchase him the TGE liscence.

Is there some way that I can buy this to my own account so that if he were to quit (or disappear), I would remain in control of the source and could give it out to someone else?

The biggest problem I see is that he could keep the source code and use it for his own project, after all contact is lost.

I understand that the liscence is non-transferable... but what if I remained, legally, in control of it.
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Torque Owner Hans Sjunnesson
#1
10/15/2005 (10:06 am)
At first hand, I'd say that's not a valid solution.

From the EULA:

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3. RESTRICTIONS.

The following restrictions apply to the use of this Engine:

(a) This license is granted to individuals only, and cannot be owned by corporate or business entities.
...
(d) Licensee may not distribute the source code or documentation to the engine in any manner, unless recipient also has a license to the Engine.

You might want to get in touch with GarageGames personally for this. Perhaps the commercial license would allow you to do something like that.

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Hans

Torque Owner nibbuls
#2
10/15/2005 (11:02 am)
A cheaper solution would be to get him under contract, I guess. It still costs me $100 if he leaves the project...

Since I only have one programmer, the commercial license seems like a waste of money.

Many thanks for the help!

I'd hate to think that this kind of license restriction would prevent my use of the engine.

Torque Owner Lee-Orr Orbach
#3
10/15/2005 (11:11 am)
You can always tell him to buy it in a you pay half and he pays half solution or something like that.

lee-orr

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#4
10/15/2005 (2:26 pm)
Buy the commercial license and maintain programmer control of the source. It is a per-seat license rather than an individual license.

Associate Matt Fairfax
PopCap
#5
10/15/2005 (5:00 pm)
David is correct. One of the main differences between the commercial and indie license is that the commercial license is for your company and allows you to keep control of it even if your programmer changes.

Torque Owner nibbuls
#6
10/15/2005 (5:56 pm)
That extra $400/programmer wasn't in the budget, unfortunately.

I'll seek out people who have already purchased the independent license.

Thanks, all of you, for helping me out.