Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:17:14 +0100 (MET)
From: Uffe Friis Lichtenberg <uffefl@diku.dk>
To: quake-editing@nvg.unit.no
Subject: Legal issues (was: WAD conversion sketch)
In-Reply-To: <199603181323.OAA07312@colossus.nero.uni-bonn.de>
On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> You might want to ask them.
I don't think there could be any other answer than 'no, please don't make
editors available for anything other than the registered version', but of
course I could be wrong.
> > Legal issues: not bring out any useful tools prior to
> > registered release.
>
> This is a slightly difficult issue. I have no intention
> to end discussion of such topics, which is a far cry from a
> public production release of anything. After all, we might
> as well shutdown this list for a few months if we all
> agree to wait for registered Quake.
No no. There is IMO a BIG difference between discussing Quake
hacking/editing and releasing small utils to demonstrate the concepts,
and releasing fully-fledged software to modify Quake with (ie. hacking
tools vs. end-user products.)
I can't see any harm in the discussion or release of viewers/small
editors/file format converters/etc. as long as they are not "marketed" as
Quake-editors.
BTW: until a Quake non-test version comes out this is all we have to play
around with anyway, so there's no need trying to stop us now :)
> > tools should not work with shareware release
>
> In this case we could as well abandon any discussion
> of distribution file formats, and DMADDS/DeuSF-style
> or pack/unpack tools source distribution.
Well, it's a bit hard to speculate on that until the shareware finally
hits the net.
Zonk,
Uffe. [uphfe]
uffefl@diku.dk