Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


24 Oct 1995 15:09:21 +0100

In article <GDR11.95Oct24120354@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Unfortunately, Walnut Creek cannot legally publish the contents of the
>IF archive without checking each program and each game for its licence
>to see if it may be legally distributed (and it may not, unless it has a
>licence to say so). In cases where a program has a licence that does
>not explicitly allow commercial redistribution (I am presuming that the
>Walnut Creek project is a for-profit project) Walnut Creek will have to
>contact the author and negotiate a licence agreement.

Of course I'm no lawyer but I know that Walnut Creek has
produced CDROMs of other FTP sites (e.g. the Aminet archive of Amiga
software) where the same applies, and they did so w/o any problems.
They gave a free CDROM to anyone who could prove that one of her
programs was included on the CD, and that was about it. Two or three
authors stated that they didn't want their programs on the CD, but
I can't remember any big discussions within the Amiga community.

-- Dave