Fair use cannot defend a fangame. It's not a magic phrase to get off scott free. Uranium developers have no legal right to use Nintendo's intellectual property.
The power of the name "Pokemon" is in the branding. Uranium would never have received 2 million downloads without that name, no matter how similar it was in essence. Twitch and JV made the game because they love the world of Pokemon and wanted to make a tribute to it.
Our current devs would be able to change the names, I suppose, but that would clearly not be the will of the original devs. And as an underground game, what's the point?
This was brought up several times on the old forums and the devs always answered in this vein.
Tuxemon is a really cool idea, but I think Uranium probably missed its chance to be a FOSSy game 9 years ago when development started.
The power of the name "Pokemon" is in the branding. Uranium would never have received 2 million downloads without that name, no matter how similar it was in essence. Twitch and JV made the game because they love the world of Pokemon and wanted to make a tribute to it.
Our current devs would be able to change the names, I suppose, but that would clearly not be the will of the original devs. And as an underground game, what's the point?
This was brought up several times on the old forums and the devs always answered in this vein.
Tuxemon is a really cool idea, but I think Uranium probably missed its chance to be a FOSSy game 9 years ago when development started.
