Re: recent additions to the Interactive Fiction Archive


15 Nov 1995 10:15:12 GMT

Branko Collin (U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl) wrote:
: In article <blasius.432.816011774@gmd.de>
: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius) writes:
:
: >
: >gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:
: >
: >>Volker Blasius <blasius@gmd.de> wrote:
: >>> games/spectrum/...
: >>> a bunch of Z80 snapshots without description arrived:
: >>> [lots of Spectrum Games deleted]
: >>
: >>Many of these I recognise as commercial games from the early 1980s.
: >>Are they really freely redistributable now?
: >
: >I really don't know, I entered the micro scene much later. But I think if
: >they were distributed with a magazine (Your Sinclair / Your Spectrum; thanks
: >to all who helped me with that!) in the 90s, there isn't much to protect any
: >more
:
: Not everything distributed with a magazine is freely distributable. I don't
: know however is this is the case with the Your Spectrum tapes.

If the snapshots are from ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/spectrum as I think they are,
then they are freely distributable. Maintainer of that site, Arnt Gulbrandsen,
will not distribute snapshots until he has a written permission from the
copyright holder. For more info read ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/spectrum/README.

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