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- First I'd like to say that in general I think the latter is fine.
- I'm a nitpicker of nature, though... ;-) (I hope you don't mind.)
-
- > This is the letter I intend to send to iD. The subject will be "adaptation
- > of Doom on another machine"
-
- I think 'adaption of DOOM' sounds a bit much like a straight port. What
- we're writing is IMO a 'DOOM .WAD compatible game', hopefully very similar
- to DOOM.
-
- By the way, I believe it should be 'DOOM' (capital letters) at all places.
-
- > We are a group of programmers who met on the net recently. We wish to ask
- ^^^^
- I think it sounds better if you write simply 'who' there.
-
- > you a juridic question. We are currently working on a 3D engine which is
- ^^
- 'will be' so far.
-
- > able to load Doom I & II WADs and are wondering how this could be done
- > legally and with your approval. This is just a proposal, and we are open to
- > any solution you might bring to us.
- > We know some people have already developped official versions of doom, the
- ^^
- only one 'p'
-
- > Jag version being the most famous. We also know that for such commercial
- > products, you ask for a licencing fee, which is of course normal.
- ^
- Should that be there?
-
- > Our problem is that we are independant penniless students working on a very
- > "confidential" machine, that is, the atari falcon. We love this machine for
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I must say I don't quite see why you use that word there. It is late, though.
-
- 'Atari Falcon' or 'ATARI Falcon030' looks nicer. They are names after all.
-
- > many reasons, but have to admit it doesn't have all the software it
- > deserves. We consider that Doom is a very major game. Something really new.
- ^^
- Strike that.
-
- > So we decided to code a similar engine for the falcon. And while we were at
- ^^^^^^
- Again 'Falcon' is better.
-
- > it, why not make it compatible? So we are making it able to read WADs and to
- > communicate with Doom on other machines.
-
- That last should perhaps be 'and to, hopefully, communicate...'.
-
- > We also decided that this would be a free project and that all sources would
- > be available for anyone to improve.
- > So you see, our goal is NOT AT ALL to make money with your work. On the
- ^^^^
- Should be 'from', I believe.
-
- > contrary, consider this as a (tiny) new market for you. To run the program,
- ^^
- Strike.
-
- > people will need a WAD and not only a PWAD. So they will have to find it
- > somewhere, that is, they will have to register their copy of the PC version
- > and extract the WAD from it with a program we'll give with the package.
- ^^^^
- 'include'
-
- > In summary, to legally use our program, they will have to purchase a copy of
- ^
- Probably better without that.
-
- > Doom from you.
- > We think that this could be the way things can be achieved with everyone's
- > satisfaction.
-
- I don't like the sentence above, but it's too late and my brain's not fully
- operational so I won't venture an alternative at this time.
- I'll sleep on it, though.
-
- > We would of course include a licence aggreement that could be based on the
- ^
- Only one 'g'.
-
- > FSF's one, with the following additional statements:
- > * iD software has nothing to do with us and shouldn't be held responsible
- > for this program.
-
- I guess they'll expand on that with 'can't in any way be held responsible
- for damages resulting from use of this software in any ..............' ;-)
-
- > You can see that our goal is not in any way to benefit from your work. What
-
- I think 'is not to, in any way, profit from your work' is better.
-
- > we want to do is to give Doom to our beloved machine, while preserving your
- > rights intact. We think that you could only benefit from this (even if it
- > would be negligible when compared with your sales on PC).
- ^^^^
- I _think_ 'to' would be better in this case, but I might be wrong.
-
-
- Again, sorry for the excessive nitpicking.
-
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