Ansca Mobile, the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popularCorona SDK, is accusing its partnerPapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK for use in PapayaMobile’s Social Game Engine. According to Ansca Mobile COO David Rangel, his company recently discovered that Papaya’s engine is what he calls a “blatant copy” of some aspects of the Corona SDK.
In addition, says Rangel, some of PapayaMobile’s syntax and sample code is identical to Ansca’s, and the company is using graphic assets it took from the code on the PapayaMobile website.
The code PapayaMobile is being accused of copying is available here in the Corona SDK, a free download from the Ansca Mobile website.
You can also see that the image above the “Physics Demo” on this page of PapayaMobile’s website (as of the time of writing) is an image from Ansca’s sample code packages. It even has the Ansca logo.
If you were to download the sample code, you would see that it’s very similar to Ansca’s code, Rangel says. What this means, he explains, is that they “clearly based how their physics engine works very closely on ours.”
Ansca hasn’t yet settled on legal action, but Rangel says “we do think it’s egregious and is worth calling out.”
The situation is a strange one because Ansca and PapayaMobile announced an official partnership back in August which allowed PapayaMobile’s SDK to be integrated into Corona. This made it easier for mobile game developers to add social elements to their games.
Stranger still are the accusations that Ansca reached out to PapayaMobile to try and resolve the situation, but never heard back. PapayaMobile, meanwhile, claims to not have heard of these accusations until this morning, when we contacted them for comment.
As of right now, PapayaMobile doesn’t have an official comment on the situation. The company says it needs more time to research matter in order determine what’s really going on. They’ll let us know when they have more information.
Note: We’ll update this post with that info, when it becomes available.
Source:http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/03/ansca-mobile-accuses-partner-papayamobile-of-copying-its-code/
In addition, says Rangel, some of PapayaMobile’s syntax and sample code is identical to Ansca’s, and the company is using graphic assets it took from the code on the PapayaMobile website.
The code PapayaMobile is being accused of copying is available here in the Corona SDK, a free download from the Ansca Mobile website.
You can also see that the image above the “Physics Demo” on this page of PapayaMobile’s website (as of the time of writing) is an image from Ansca’s sample code packages. It even has the Ansca logo.
If you were to download the sample code, you would see that it’s very similar to Ansca’s code, Rangel says. What this means, he explains, is that they “clearly based how their physics engine works very closely on ours.”
Ansca hasn’t yet settled on legal action, but Rangel says “we do think it’s egregious and is worth calling out.”
The situation is a strange one because Ansca and PapayaMobile announced an official partnership back in August which allowed PapayaMobile’s SDK to be integrated into Corona. This made it easier for mobile game developers to add social elements to their games.
Stranger still are the accusations that Ansca reached out to PapayaMobile to try and resolve the situation, but never heard back. PapayaMobile, meanwhile, claims to not have heard of these accusations until this morning, when we contacted them for comment.
As of right now, PapayaMobile doesn’t have an official comment on the situation. The company says it needs more time to research matter in order determine what’s really going on. They’ll let us know when they have more information.
Note: We’ll update this post with that info, when it becomes available.
Source:http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/03/ansca-mobile-accuses-partner-papayamobile-of-copying-its-code/
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