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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: COMING SOON: New Wolf3d editors that work with all 6 episodes
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 02:32:23 GMT
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- bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
- >I checked through the documentation that came with Wolfenstein and was
- >unable to find any reference to "copyright" or "shareware license agreement"
- >or anything like that. On the contrary, the following message was printed
- >when the game unpacked:
-
- >"Please distribute this episode of Wolfenstein 3-D (episode one) to
- >friends and bulletin boards"
-
- >..so the Apogee graphics are distributed with the consent of Apogee; the
- >remaining graphics belong to the author. What's the problem?
-
- He's talking about taking part of the program, making changes to it,
- and distributing it. You can't just do that to any program, unless
- they've given permission for it.
- --
- Actually, Dukakis wanted a Texan who was slightly more liberal than Bentsen,
- but George Bush was busy.
-