Wargaming has confirmed the existence of lawsuits against former employees

Wargaming Company in the comments for App2Top.ru she confirmed that she had filed a lawsuit against her former employees. She claims that their posting on GitHub of the DAVA Engine code created after 2014 was not authorized.

Recall that yesterday the Belarusian indie studio Blitz Team said that Wargaming sued five of its employees and asks them to recover $ 1.69 million from them. The position of protecting your employees The Blitz Team consists in the fact that the management was aware that new iterations of the DAVA Engine continue to be created under an open BSD3 license.

The Blitz Team also states that they have correspondence in which Roman Zanin, the current tax advisor for Wargaming, Daria Firsova, the former intellectual property advisor for Wargaming, as well as Michael McDonald, the current technical director of Wargaming, confirm the type of license and the placement of the DAVA Engine code on GitHub, including after 2014.

By the way, yesterday in a press release, the Blitz Team asked the question: Wargaming is suing only current employees Blitz Team or anyone who has modified the engine in recent years outside the walls of the “tank” company.

As far as we can understand from the Wargaming comment, we may be talking about a larger number of employees. She notes that “she faced a case of violation of her exclusive rights by a number of former employees on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, the USA and other countries.” In turn, the entire Blitz Team is located in Minsk.

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• Wargaming has sued former employees. She demands $1.69 million from them.