> Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no > more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of > questions about their copyright: > > This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few > restrictions in on use. But here are a few : > > Restrictions : > Crack dot Com retains ownership of the Abuse Trademark and data sets.
What does data sets mean? Anyways, I think they are saying that they are retaining copyright, and just licensing it. This is the same as most of our other software. > Disclaimer of Warranty : > As with most Public Domain software, no warranty is made or implied > by Crack dot Com or Jonathan Clark. > > Export Restrictions : > I'm not a very legal person, so I don't know if PD software can > be exported countries subject to U.S.A. export restrictions (currently > Cuba, Yugoslavia, Hati, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria). Just to > be safe don't put it there. Nobody is allowed to export software (or hardly anything, really) to these countries. This can be safely ignored. > Things you CAN do : > Make another game and sell it commercially > Use bits and parts as you see fit. > Learn how to make a better game > Port Abuse to any system you like. > > This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't > have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like > we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some > us-only ftp site, or what? Don't worry about it. > Also, what is being released into the public domain is the abuse engine, but > not the data files for the actual game (levels, sounds, so on). Those still > have a non-free copyright. So there will probably be a abuse-libs package > that is in non-free, which will stick abuse, which will depend on that > package, right back in contrib, where it is now. Sounds like the libs can go into the free section. Cool. Cheers, - Jim
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