[Scummvm-devel] AppStore Code

[Oystein Eftevaag]

They set it to automatically start whatever game is autodetected in the 
current directory.
Not sure if any source modification is needed for that..? -p command 
line option?

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Oystein/vinterstum

> Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:55:11 +0300
>> "Liron Barzilay" <liron at ismartdialer.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The new version is up in the AppStore (1.2) and our site is updated
>>> with the new sources.
>>>
>>> Please tell us your thoughts.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I wonder what caused you to add following statement to FOTAQ article on
>> Wikipedia:
>>
>>   "In 2009, the PC CD-ROM game version was ported to the iPhone / iPod
>>   Touch by iPhSoft and it's available on Apple's AppStore:"
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flight_of_the_Amazon_Queen&diff=290921905&oldid=290259137
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder about the iPhSoft source patch. It seems only to include the 
> iPhone backend modifications. The port will probably always start up the 
> FOTAQ game bundled. There are two possibilities on how they achieved 
> this: they always start ScummVM with their setup FOTAQ target or they 
> modified the sources to do so. The later would of course require them to 
> release source patches for that too.
>
> Actually after all I would really want to see a full released source 
> tree from them. I think that's part of the GPL too.
>
> Next I'm wondering which FOTAQ copy they are using. The freeware one 
> includes these two statements in its license:
>
> 1) You may distribute this game for free on any medium, provided this Readme
> and all associated copyright notices and disclaimers are left intact.
>
> Do they include the README file? Or did the get permissions from the 
> original authors to not include it?
>
> 2) You may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive, and may
> distribute it in aggregate as part of a larger and possibly commercial 
> software
> distribution (such as a Linux distribution or magazine coverdisk). You must
> provide proper attribution and ensure that this Readme and all associated
> copyright notices and disclaimers are left intact.
>
> Over here I wonder what's a reasonable copying fee for distribution via 
> the AppStore?
>
> After all the latter could be changed on some agreement with the 
> original authors I guess. Still it would be interesting to know about it.
>
> // Johannes
>
>
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