The title of this thread made me think, Gee, I'd love to conquer
relicensing. I'm certainly not a relicensing master yet. :-)
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Hi all,
I'm new dealing with licenses and I've been trying to catch up, however
I need advice.
Edward M Barlow wrote conquer, a middle
Joe Smith wrote:
Juan M. Mendez wrote in message
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So, I have been investigating.
It seems Adam Bryant developed a new version 5 of conquer:
http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/fs/pub/adb/beta/
where all the files hold notices disallowing redistribution of the
code with a
Juan M. Mendez wrote:
On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without a piece of paper with Adam's signature saying otherwise,
the copyright remains with him. So Ed should ensure he does not
change the copyright notice.
snip
So, I have been investigating.
It seems Adam
Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Michael Poole wrote:
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
However I didn't see a signature in the text file.
Only the guy's name.
At least in the US, the relevant law (why I mentioned affirmative
acts) is what make
Michael Poole wrote:
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
However I didn't see a signature in the text file.
Only the guy's name.
At least in the US, the relevant law (why I mentioned affirmative
acts) is what make click-through agreements binding -- the act of
clicking is the user's electronic
Juan M. Mendez wrote:
Being completely reworks for the game, could it be safe to relicense
version 4, no matter what Adam did with version 5?
If version 4 and version 5 have competely different codebases
and were written by different people, then the author of
version 4 can do whatever he
Hi all,
I'm new dealing with licenses and I've been trying to catch up, however
I need advice.
Edward M Barlow wrote conquer, a middle earth multi-player curses
based game, and posted it in USENET at comp.sources.games around 1987
and 1988. Later Adam Bryant contributing with code and patching
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I'm new dealing with licenses and I've been trying to catch up, however
I need advice.
Edward M Barlow wrote conquer, a middle earth multi-player curses
based game, and posted it in USENET at comp.sources.games around 1987
and 1988. Later Adam Bryant
Michael Poole wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* The following file trade.c was written by Adam Bryant who
* gives all rights to this code to Ed Barlow provided that this
* message remains intact.
IANAL, but this looks like an effective conveyance of copyright to me.
I would rather read
On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without a piece of paper with Adam's signature saying otherwise,
the copyright remains with him. So Ed should ensure he does not
change the copyright notice.
That brings me a new issue, with more doubts, so I reproduce the messages I
had
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
Michael Poole wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* The following file trade.c was written by Adam Bryant who
* gives all rights to this code to Ed Barlow provided that this
* message remains intact.
IANAL, but this looks like an effective conveyance of copyright
Juan M. Mendez wrote:
My doubt is, how this license transfering of the Adam Bryant code
could affect the old code of version 4 of conquer released in 1988 in
USENET, the one that Ed allowed me to relicense as Free Software.
That really depends on what Adam put in his contract with that
gaming
Juan M. Mendez wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, I have been investigating.
It seems Adam Bryant developed a new version 5 of conquer:
http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/fs/pub/adb/beta/
where all the files hold notices disallowing redistribution of the
code with a notice
starting with.
Michael Poole wrote:
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
Without a piece of paper with Adam's signature saying otherwise,
the copyright remains with him. So Ed should ensure he does not
change the copyright notice.
This is certainly a curious definition of writing and signature --
which is to
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
Michael Poole wrote:
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
Without a piece of paper with Adam's signature saying otherwise,
the copyright remains with him. So Ed should ensure he does not
change the copyright notice.
This is certainly a curious definition of writing and
So, as a briefing, it seems an electronic permission can be enough,
the same licenses are now for source code.
And about conquer, I talked againt to Ed, it seems he keeps the right
of version 4, and it was version 5 the one that Bryant developed and
probably used with that company.
Being
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