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Auszug aus der Original RPG Maker Hilfedatei: It's illegal to sell my game?
Copyrights
This is by no means accurate and your area where you live may have different laws regarding software piracy and copyright laws. If you plan on selling your game, you may get into trouble with the law. You've been warned.
Copyright Rules with Regards to ASCII RPG Distribution
Splash Screens
There is a tutorial on changing the splash screens (the logos shown when the exec file is run). Changing the splash screens is legal so long as none of the current splash screens are deleted. Deleting any of the current flash screens is a violation of copyright laws. Removing the ASCII logos and the other one (my katakana literacy is poor) is a federal crime. However there is nothing wrong with adding to the splash screens. So in short, adding splash screens is legal, removing splash screens is not.
Credits
Did you ever want to have a lengthy end roll but were lacking in staff? Then you will like this. If you want to be professional, include ASCII again in the ending credits (this would usually occur near the end of the roll); however since ASCII was in the splash screens there is no real need for this. Now to get down to the nitty-gritty. Aside from yourself, there will probably need to be plenty of honorable mentions in your credits.
Sounds
Did you use any music from another game? If so, you must give credit to the game company (ex. Square, Ltd) and the composer (ex. Nobuo Uematsu). Did you download it from a website? You must give credit to that website. If it was in MIDI format then you must give credit to the person who converted it into MIDI format. If you downloaded the file as a WAV file then you don't need to give credit to the converter unless it was posted on the site. If you downloaded SPC files then converted them to WAV then you must give credit to all programs that you used (ex. GoldWave, ZDSPC, etc.). If you created your own music then you must give credit to all programs that you used.
Grafix
If you borrowed any grafix from another game (chip rips) then you must give credit to the game's company and the artist for that game.
Advice
This is more of a courtesy attribute. You aren't required to give credit to the person unless you used a code that he wrote. This poses a few obvious problems. By now the original coders are probably all but forgotten. So just give credit to the person you got the code from. If anyone can validly claim that he was the original coder then change the credits and make the appropriate correction.
Distribution
There seems to be a little confusion on this topic. First of all, possession of RPG Maker 2000 is lawful. RM2K falls within the same jurisdiction as anime fansubs. RM2K is a fansub of a program released only in Japanese. Unless ASCII personally asks Don to stop distribution of the program, there is nothing illegal about RM2K. However the program is still ASCII's and as such it is illegal to sell any games you make with RM2K. It was asked if buying the RPG Tsukuuru 2000 would make it legal to sell games. However it would still be illegal to sell the games you made. The legalities are extensive. First off, you must buy the program directly from ASCII and not a retailer (ASCII's commercial website would be considered a retailer). Furthermore, if you used music from other sources you would need to pay that source directly (ex. paying Square and Nintendo for rights to the music); and the same goes for grafix as well (changing colors of costumes and playing dress-up with characters falls under this as well). As for the coders, you could get away with not paying them, and in some cases they wouldn't care. Though if you get caught selling a game that a coder helped with and you refuse to pay him, you could face legal action which in turn could lead to other copyright problems for you. So in short, you will probably never be able to legally sell your game so don't bother trying to sell it.
Sollte so ziemlich alles beantworten. Aber in die Maker Hilfe guckt ja heutzutage niemand mehr -_-