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2298 :: Please review my tutorial code

• hcorion (orginal) [2016-06-04T06:26:12+02:00] view original

  Hi all. I've been working on porting Lazy Foo's SDL2 tutorials over to Nim. I'm doing this because Nim's SDL2 implementation is different, and for those of us that are new to SDL2, it is hard to find decent examples, tutorials and documentation on Nim's special implementation of sdl2. You can find the code here: https://github.com/hcorion/lazynim Thanks so much!

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• Vladar (orginal) [2016-06-04T10:29:33+02:00] view original

  I don't think you could legally port Lazy Foo's tutorials.

  Q: Can I port your code to Java/Perl/Python/C or translate your tutorials to another language?

  A: No. From what I learned in my business law course, copyright law is sticky to say the least. If I do allow people to translate my tutorials who has rights to those translated tutorials is a complete mess. I'd rather just not deal with it.

  http://lazyfoo.net/faq.php

  P.S.: Yes, I know that because I had that idea too. But instead made my own set of tutorial examples: https://github.com/Vladar4/sdl2_nim/tree/master/examples (not for official sdl2 implementation though).

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• hcorion (orginal) [2016-06-04T23:39:12+02:00] view original

  Hi, I did contact the 'lazy foo' via email regarding it, but I didn't get anything back, I hope he didn't just regard my email as a know-nothing who hasn't bothered to read the faq. So I removed the original images, since they are under copyright and decided to just put it out there so people can correct my programming. I do commend you for writing your sdl2 tutorial, however, it is not using the official wrapper, and I would rather use the official one, although I have heard good things about yours. I would still like to keep the code on github, because I'm trying to learn sdl2 myself (I've never used sdl2 before this) so I'll be translating the code anyway. If he asks me to remove it I will, but I'd rather keep it on there.

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• Vladar (orginal) [2016-06-06T00:14:10+02:00] view original

  Well, It's totally your decision. I just wanted you to know of possible consequences regarding Lazy Foo's works.

  Also, feel free to ask any sdl2-related questions if there'll be some incomprehension.

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