On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:45, Aley Keprt wrote: > Let's imagine that somebody take Manic Miner, change the in-game text to let > it say "this is Manic miner by p*ssoft, it is public domain", and then give > it to Your Sinclair. Do you think they are allowed to publish it?
No, because only the original author can define the licensing terms as P.D. Many authors of this sort of program *did* define their licensing terms as P.D. - my commiserations to Frantisek if he didn't, but I can see where YS got the idea. > I think they need a written permission in each > case, regardless what's written in in-game text. If a program really is PD, then they don't need permission to distribute it. > his origin is Czechoslovakia. We both think > there is no reaon of removing the country name. Did the program previously say that, and end up not saying it? Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
