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Steam portable Submitted by trigger-happy on May 28, 2008 - 8:36am
hi everyone! I made steam portable it is just like steam but it is an single .exe file and its compressed to 8.46MB, it works fine and it is good for people who like to play counter-strike and other steam games at work or at school, you just have to log in with your steam account to play! Details. How to install: extract the steamportable folder into your "PortableApps" folder(which is in your thumb drive) and click on refresh app icons if your startportableapps.exe is already started Download link: One of the problems with it that it extracts some(well a lot) files in a temp file, some computers at school my not allow this but its the best i can do for now!. for more information go to www.steampowered.com, also i need to change the icon, all this will be done when i have time. p.s can someone help me make a splash screen for this! i would be very happy! and once again please do not criticize me! this project is UNFINISHED!!! so don't complain. From trigger-happy ( categories: )
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removed the link because my interpretation of the license says you cannot modify and redistribute Steam, however if I am wrong then I shall put the link back.
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Fix the site info link too
It points to a junk site www.stReampowered.com, not www.steampowered.com.
Note the extra R.
spelling mistake???? i edited
spelling mistake???? i edited it anyway.
It's not modifying
look its not modifying its just compressing, that's all I done!
Unless
you are distributing the exact file that they do as a distribution bundle, byte for byte, then you are, in fact, modifying it. That is the literal and legal definition.
If you're compressing anything, OR adding files, OR removing file, OR changing file names, OR just repackaging what they give out in the most trivial of ways, then you are modifying it, and it is not allowed.
What you might be able to do, is put up a download of just your launcher code, and instructions for people to embed their existing copy of Steam into it. (Although I don't know the details of the Steam licence, and users might not be allowed to even do that for themselves without breaking it).
oh well i am making a youtube
oh well i am making a youtube video about it.
Thanks!
I for one am quite interested in this project. Also thank you for your patience and understanding regarding the posting guidelines. Please let us know when you have the youtube video completed.
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Thank God I'm living in a sensible country where I
am legally entitled to make modifications to software
I have paid for the right to use .
U.S intellectual property-law is preventing people from
tinkering which in turn ultimately prevents people from learning new things other than legal mumbo-jumbo.
Not
US law, it is the end user license agreement that you agree to when using the software.
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Yeah
It applies to you no matter where you live.
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Isn't it US law that makes a EULA into a binding contract ?
Not so in my country, it doesn't matter what the EULA says if our laws state otherwise.
The law of my country clearly states that I am allowed to make any modification needed to use the software provided I have paid for it .
Please stop assuming the entire World is under US jurisdiction :)
Contract, not law.
It is not even law that is doing this. When you hit "I accept" when you install/download the file, it is like you signing your name on a contract. You legally agree that you agree to all the terms listed, including not modifying the software in certain ways. No matter what country you are in, a contract is legally binding, and when you said you agreed to the terms, you signed and agreed to the contract terms.
I
don't I live in the US either, however I always saw it as posted above, as a contract, whether it is legally enforceable isn't really part of the debate here, the publishers don't allow redistribution and therefore I removed the link, end of story.
P.S. You haven't paid for the software either ;)
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
The law of my country clearly states
The law of my country clearly states that I am allowed to make any modification needed to use the software
But can you then "distribute" it to others,
That's usually the most important part of all this.
Modifying and using it yourself is very different from modifying and sharing [or selling]
and God bless the USA :-)
and, by the way, you Have been here Long Enough to Know the "legal/moral/ethical" restraints we operate under :-P
Tim
"freenode, it's Not as Free as it used to be, Free as in Freedom" :-(
is that youtube video done?
Is that youtube video done because I could seriously use a portable steam!