Richard Stallman very likes recursions. This is why GNU ( something he named ) is a recursive acronym. And GPL ( something he came up with ) is a recursive license.

I think copyleft was just something too clever not to try for Richard Stallman. But yeah, corporation are doing anything they can to get around it.

If they don’t want to talk to me. Then it’s fine. I wont talk to them either. I would work in a supermarket. They don’t want me to sign nothing at all. And I can do my software on my own.

My view on this all is something like this:

• Users should have their freedoms to use, change, share the program. Even if they are doing it for profit. Even if those users are corporations.
• Copyleft is useful to make it so when those who share, share, their versions of the same program is also Libre. It is not about protecting the developer. It is to insure the user still has the freedom.
• One is not required to share. So if I make a version of the program that works for me, I am under no obligation to give anyone a copy of it. ( But under copyleft, if I do, I need this copy to be libre )

So I can withhold giving away my copy until I get paid. Basically I don’t even release anything until I get what I want from the deal. And I can do that for every change I make. But as soon as I make what I wan and release it, everything is libre from the beginning.

I can use screenshots or videos to prove that I have a working piece of software. And tease what are the changes I made.

The question now is, can there be a platform to streamline this process?

legally binding non-disclosure agreements

I don’t sign those.

to help open source projects like gnu or copy-left licenses

Copyleft was not designed to protect the developer from corporations. It was designed to protect users from developers.

a big part of me is sad that i will never become rich like my current colleagues

I know this feeling. I was finishing my film Moria’s Race which is libre and will never make a single cent. And then I went to see Spielberg’s Auto-Biographical film “The Fablemans” and it literally broke me. The amount of evil I have to agree to do just to have a chance at something like this. Oh my god. It didn’t help to go see Avatar 2 right after that.

The worst is that a lot of people delude themselves that they are good. I don’t think Spielberg is a bad person. The messages in his films seem to point that he is firmly on the side of freedom. Though he never thought about copyright, for example, as being anything evil yet. And probably if somebody will point it out to him, his age is such that there is probably very little neuro-plasticity left there, and if he somehow justified copyright all this time, it will be hard to convince him otherwise now. Not even talking about how his whole career is basically holding on the fact that copyright exists.

To do something about this whole apocalypse, we need to change values. GDP has to go away! Something like a freedom score should replace it. That will already force governments to divert from stupid ideas like “chat control”. And perhaps will make them start supporting Free / Libre projects. And then of course, there should be ways to make money in Free / Libre to convince those who care only about how big their pockets are. Donations do not cut it. They are good, but they feel pathetic in comparison to what a proprietary alternative makes. There should be a way to make money without restricting freedom. Devices is a good start. Librem5 and PinePhone are amazing. Software is totally free. Maybe something like a reverse-crowd-funding could be implemented for simple software. Basically the changes aren’t even released to begin with, until people come and fill up a can full of money. Each can send a cent or a million dollars. But the idea is, the developer chooses how much will unlock the release. And since it is unlocked it is totally free. And to avoid proprietary versions, until it is unlocked nobody has access apart from the devs.

Are you the same Blender Dumbass 2.0 ?

I am the same blenderdumbass as in odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f and as in blenderdumbass.org

I bought a phone for something like $20 which is very simple. It has no vibration. It has 65 KB of onboard storage. And it is not a smartphone. I don’t even take it with me most of the time, because I know that nobody will call me anyway, so why bother. I use it very rarely. The most usage I have from it is calling, flashlight and maybe as a clock once every so often, since I have many actual clocks.

On the computer I use GNU / Linux. And I have no complaints.

So I don’t understand why even bother with a smartphone in the first place?

PS: I would love to try Pinephone or Librem5 though.

how and when you know it’s a necessity

I did the math actually. And it seems like mass surveillance will only be justified if homicide rates are higher than 20% ( if 1 out of 5 people die in murder ). And only if surveillance actually stops all the crime ( which it doesn’t ) and only if there is nothing less problematic that could be used instead ( which there are plenty techniques, like normal regular investigation, where you ask people around on their own terms ). Basically the math says it isn’t justified by an apocalyptic margin.

As always, they use a mildly annoying problem and try to solve it with absolute apocalypse.

It’s proprietary.

I decided that this car will have a spare tire.

Making doors to some background NPC cars. ( That you can steal of course ).

Those NPCs lol

Breaking my brain, working on the story. But everything is so silly, it’s amazing.

Okay Jack looks good in this outfit. Now rigging. ( I mean, making him work for the game )

I’m adding Jack now. The problem with him is that he needs to be probably not in the racing uniform since he is no longer racing actually. I may actually make him wear the same stupid hat that the Paps is wearing. I don’t know about it. The racer for the team now is Moria.

Main post

I have not just started the project. So I will outline the project so far in this post.

From between 2020 to 2023 I was making a short film called “Moria’s Race” available here. During the making of the movie an idea of a game came to me. And so now I’m making this game.

The game is a story continuation of the movie.

The game is about Dani, the brother of the main character of the film. And his racing.

Style of the game

The game is open world ( though the world is not that big. A small-ish town with a racetrack, from the movie ). The character is free to roam around anywhere. And at this point can take any car to drive in.

There will not be any cut-scenes. The story and other events will just happen in the game during the game-play.

The cars and a a lot of the world is breakable but it’s not trying to be a wrecking simulator.

Basically think of something like GTA meeting Flat Out 2 but it’s for kids.

Videos

I am publishing videos about this on Peertube. You can see the playlist here.

Playable builds

Since the game is not finished there are no files that just run by themself. But rather, there are packages you can download which you can open in the game engine to play them. They are available here.

Game Engine / License

I’m using a fork of Blender called UPBGE for this. So the game is GPL - compatible. All of the code I wrote for the game is under GPLv3+. The art ( those I did myself ) are CC-BY-SA The game contains other files ( mainly sounds ) under various other compatible licenses.

I decided to use UPBGE specifically for the fact that it is copylefted. And also because the movie was made in blender and UPBGE just lets me reuse the assets almost directly. ( I had to do minor changes, mainly for optimizations, but also I made cars breakable and stuff. ).