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From: bright@dataio.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 13:07:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 13:07:17 1987
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Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
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In article <32110@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <1030@saturn.ucsc.edu> (Steven Grimm) writes:
>>In article <2731@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> (John Saponara) writes:
>>I'm working on a port, too -- but mine will be PD.  It'll make a really nice
>>online game for BBSs.
>
>You cannot 'port' it and make it
>PD legally. All you can do is re-write it and make the version *you* 
>created PD.

Be careful to rewrite it from scratch, also don't use the name Empire.

>Not that Interstel will probably sue you, although they 
>could.

Interstel owns the rights, and is very interested in protecting them,
as the game is selling quite well.

I might add that the entire source code is registered with the US Copyright
Office (not just the first and last 25 pages).
That means that if you distribute it, you are liable for
damages and legal expenses. I'm sorry about this, but people have been
ignoring my requests to stop distributing it, so now I have to resort
to threatening. If that doesn't work, the lawyers will get involved.