This may seem to be a silly question, but I’d like to know for sure: is it appropriate to use an application template that is open source, like Balloon Pop or Corona Crush, change it, and then publish it on the application market? Or will that land me in a situation where I will be sued?
I’m not a lawyer, but normally people post code samples to help others use a certain functionality. Using that code that handles that functionality would be fine to incorporate into your project, where you are also creating your own functionality and images and sounds and the like.
But taking the Corona Crush package and just slapping on a new name and keeping everything else the same would be wrong.
Many people who provide code do specify that it is open source or can be used in projects without attribution or things like that.
In the case of Corona Crush, that was a way for the Corona team to show how one could build a Candy Crush-like game using the physics engine as an alternative to mapping the location of each individual piece. I would guess that they would be fine with anyone using that logic to create similar games.
I’m not a lawyer, but normally people post code samples to help others use a certain functionality. Using that code that handles that functionality would be fine to incorporate into your project, where you are also creating your own functionality and images and sounds and the like.
But taking the Corona Crush package and just slapping on a new name and keeping everything else the same would be wrong.
Many people who provide code do specify that it is open source or can be used in projects without attribution or things like that.
In the case of Corona Crush, that was a way for the Corona team to show how one could build a Candy Crush-like game using the physics engine as an alternative to mapping the location of each individual piece. I would guess that they would be fine with anyone using that logic to create similar games.