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Message: 4272

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 03/06/2004

Subject: Re: Retro Gamer #4 (The MegaTree) / Copyright

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
wrote:

> However, putting these data on the cover-disk would raise thorny
> copyright-issues, as "the copyrights in regard to anything on these
> disks remain with their legal owners", not with Retro Gamer, who
> would presumably have to seek permission from/through Stuart
> Fotheringham to do such.

Of course, the same applies to putting nearly any Spectrum game on a
coverdisc, and I've seen that done before now. I imagine it depends
on whether the publishers think they can get away with it.
For that matter, if we distribute games based on JSW it's because we
think that we can get away with it.

> I would not allow my Broadsoft software to be sold for money, not
> even if I were offered a 100% share of the profits (though I am
> perfectly happy for my software to be freely distributed, or reused
> in other free software, provided that I am credited in the
> accompanying documentation as appropriate). The Spectrum-emulation
> scene thrives on a free-software culture.

Free as in beer, or as in freedom?

> If one of my games were included on a cover-disk of a magazine sold
> for money, I would be absolutely livid.

Interesting. I released JSWED2 under the GPL, so there's nothing to
stop people putting that on magazine coverdiscs. Indeed, I believe it
has been. That probably means that I can't use any code from your JSW
utilities in JSWED2.
Obviously, the licence to use for a purely functional program (like
JSWED2) isn't appropriate for a creative work like a set of JSW
levels. So don't take my post as an exhortation to change to the GPL;
that certainly wouldn't work for JSW games!

 

 

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