Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-31 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/30/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one case to make a significant point involving mise-en-scene had a massive amount of new game data which was meant to be integrated with the existing game data, thus creating a sequel. There was more going on than that, of course, but it

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael K. Edwards wrote: The Game Genie case (Galoob) was a generic cheat code widget that substituted the odd byte in order to add lives and power-ups and all that, and was in no sense a substitutable good for the console, the game cartridge, or a sequel to any particular game. The game

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-31 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/31/05, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [more stuff where we agree] Basically harmless, if TTD is abandonware; Consider that it has an official successor by the same author. Oh, but copyright a different company. Do you think maybe he plagarized himself? (Just to throw

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-28 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/27/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's correct; and, with or without that dependency, OpenTTD infringes the copyright on Transport Tycoon Deluxe under a mise en scene theory, as discussed on debian-legal.

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 27 May 2005 15:16:18 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: BTW, doom is open source software and is not a clone. AFAIK, the Doom game engine is free software, but the original Doom game data are still proprietary. There are free reimplementations of the game data (such as

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's correct; and, with or without that dependency, OpenTTD infringes the copyright on Transport Tycoon Deluxe under a mise en scene theory, as discussed on debian-legal. (Not to say there's a What do you mean by that exactly? A