Also it is NOT piracy to download a FREE program!
you're right! it's not:
Piracy: the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
wait.... that doesn't seem right
the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.
technically it is piracy even when YoYo Games did support 1.4
If they themselves did not give it away. It's piracy. Weather they cared or not, well doubtful but now they do!
If anyone cares in the Eula section 3.6 in regards to
Accessing and Using the YoYo Games Property:
YoYo Games grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited, worldwide licence for the licence duration specified at the time of purchase to: (i) install GameMaker for your personal use on up to three devices in order to develop and publish Publisher Property (e.g. assets and games); and (ii) distribute the runtime portion of GameMaker in object code format only as an integrated and inseparable part of your Publisher Property to third parties to whom you license your Publisher Property, subject in each case to your full compliance with the terms of this User Agreement and payment of all applicable fees. If you would like to discuss a multi-user arrangement please contact
[email protected] first.
Note that even if it's free you still accept these terms and so
purchase of the product still applies (even though there was no money transaction)
part
i states you may only have 3
persanol copies on separate computers.
part ii states you can only distribute the runtime part of game maker (this would be if you compiled your code and distributed that, or if you gave someone a game project that they could open in
their copy of game maker)
and at the end it says if you want to do a multi-user arrangement (that's what you just tried to do) you need to talk to them first.
Even if a program is free at one point doesn't mean it always will be. Just like if something goes on sale at a supermarket.
If everyone could just get game maker 1.4 for free they'd sell a whole lot less copies of game maker 2 and they are still a company after all and need to pay the bills too.