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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ogre wont compile
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 14:55:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 14:55:32 1987
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> The PD version floating around doesn't include any of the text from
> the original (or it didn't when I was fooling with it), so there's not
> a clear copyright violation involved...

Oh no?  Copyright includes translations into other languages and media,
as I recall.  If you want to make a movie of, say, "The Hunt For Red
October", simply changing all the dialogue slightly won't keep Tom Clancy
from suing you.  If the rules of the "PD" version are identical to those
of Jackson's game, then it's almost certainly a copyright violation.  It
is also probably a trademark violation, since I can't believe that Jackson
hasn't trademarked the game name "Ogre".
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