This all depends heavily on why your decompiling a map.
I'm doing a programming course at school, and whilst copying anothers work is prohibited, I personally dont frown on showing others my code and looking at others code. We all do the same work, yet I've seen at least five different solutions for one simple problem.
Decompiling a map is similar. So long as one does not start tearing out entities and flat out copying sections of the map into theirs, it seems fine to me. The architecture, as has been harped upon in this thread, is utterly useless in a decompile, and entity data is the only thing that can be reliably used.
Seeing how stuff works in a map and doing your own work inspired by what you've seen == Good
Copy/Pasting because you are too lazy/dont have the time/inclination == Bad
In any case, most players will be able to recognise a stolen feature when they see one, and should any mapper that lowers himself to stealing others work land any boon from their... practices... they will be discovered for the frauds they are in due time.
<!--QuoteBegin-Cronos+May 21 2004, 04:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cronos @ May 21 2004, 04:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm doing a programming course at school, and whilst copying anothers work is prohibited, I personally dont frown on showing others my code and looking at others code. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Showing others your code is different from someone reverse engineering your compiled program to find out how you did something. If the author wants to show people, thats great, if not, they shouldn't have to worry about people trying to do just that.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Like it was once said so elequently in Jurassic park, "you didn't earn the knowledge for yourself"..."You stood on the shoulders of great people"...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Jurassic park is THE worst source of quotes, it's emotional jiberish and an excuse to talk about dinosaurs. It is a patchwork of ideas that have been mentioned before it's time, it itself is standing on he shoulders of giants. Standing on the "shoulders of giants" it's the very feature that seperates humanity from animals, without it there would be no science, there would be no games other than tick tack toe in the sand with a stick.
Direct stealing of work is wrong, lending ideas and extending them is the very thing that is good about humanity.
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I'm doing a programming course at school, and whilst copying anothers work is prohibited, I personally dont frown on showing others my code and looking at others code. We all do the same work, yet I've seen at least five different solutions for one simple problem.
Decompiling a map is similar. So long as one does not start tearing out entities and flat out copying sections of the map into theirs, it seems fine to me. The architecture, as has been harped upon in this thread, is utterly useless in a decompile, and entity data is the only thing that can be reliably used.
Seeing how stuff works in a map and doing your own work inspired by what you've seen == Good
Copy/Pasting because you are too lazy/dont have the time/inclination == Bad
In any case, most players will be able to recognise a stolen feature when they see one, and should any mapper that lowers himself to stealing others work land any boon from their... practices... they will be discovered for the frauds they are in due time.
Showing others your code is different from someone reverse engineering your compiled program to find out how you did something. If the author wants to show people, thats great, if not, they shouldn't have to worry about people trying to do just that.
Jurassic park is THE worst source of quotes, it's emotional jiberish and an excuse to talk about dinosaurs. It is a patchwork of ideas that have been mentioned before it's time, it itself is standing on he shoulders of giants. Standing on the "shoulders of giants" it's the very feature that seperates humanity from animals, without it there would be no science, there would be no games other than tick tack toe in the sand with a stick.
Direct stealing of work is wrong, lending ideas and extending them is the very thing that is good about humanity.