Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


24 Oct 1995 13:38:39 GMT

Gareth Rees (gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: Volker Blasius <blasius@gmd.de> wrote:

: For example, Mark Howell's ZIP interpreter has no licence, which means
: that anyone who has downloaded it (including me) is probably breaking
: the law! We all know that Mark doesn't mind, but there's nothing to
: prove that.

ITF, on the other hand, explicitly says "If you distribute this program,
please distribute the entire package." No trouble there.

: This situation suggests that it would be to the advantage of interactive
: fiction authors who don't mind other people making a profit from their
: work to put their games/programs together under a single licence which
: gives permission for commercial distribution, so that people wanting to
: sell CD-ROMs or put the games on commercial bulletin boards can
: recognise which games permit this.

Yes. And if doing a CD is going to go ahead, it might be helpful if all
of the authors who read this newsgroup made their feelings clear on just
what can be distributed and under what terms.

I have also lined up a publisher (I thought of it before I heard Walnut
Creek was interested) so I'd like to press ahead if possible.

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