So I recently mentioned in the thread about emulators that I used to make interfaces for loading emulators as a hobby. I've made a small collection of these interfaces in executable form, but I'm slightly hesitant to share them for a couple reasons. Firstly, one of them is modeled after a section of MGS2, and it uses sound samples from the game, as well as the font from the game. Could I get in legal trouble for distributing this on the internet? I'm not doing it for profit, and I'm only distributing it to a small number of people, so it doesn't seem like it would be a problem - but I'm not sure. It doesn't seem like it would be any different than the various videos of videogame gameplay all around the internet. Although, maybe it would be different due to the fact that it's interactive (but it's not a game). Secondly, I put a lot of time and effort into these, and I'm a little concerned about what could happen if someone got ahold of them and started claiming that it was their work. I have no problem with distributing them for free, but I don't want to get ripped off, if you know what I mean. Any idea what I could do to prevent that? I suppose I could include some text that says "programmed by la-li-lu-le-lo" or something at the bottom of the screen. I don't want to use my real name at any rate. What should it say exactly? I could potentially release these as webpages instead of executables, but I like the idea of releasing them as executables since that's how they were always intended to be used. Allow me to reiterate that these interfaces don't work. They're for display purposes only. Hopefully someone with knowledge about intellectual rights can help me with this.
