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Submission + - Liberated Pixel Cup: Code Competition has begun! (opengameart.org)

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Nushio

on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @12:05PM

Nushio writes: "Continuing with the LPC coverage.. The Art Competition was recently finished, and the Code portion of the Liberated Pixel Cup has begun. There are some pretty awesome tilesets and assets available for Game Makers to use, and still plenty of time to make Free Software Games."

Submission + - Open Source Music Fingerprinter C&D'd (google.com)

Submitted by Nushio on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:59PM

Nushio writes: The code wasn't even released, and yet Roy van Rijn, a Music & Free Software enthusiast received a C&D from Landmark Digital Services, owners of Shazam, an Android application that allows you to find a song, by listening to a part of it. And if that wasn't enough, they want him to take down his blog post (Google Cache) explaining how he did it because it "may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world".

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