Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!lll-lcc!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: mahjongg tiles Message-ID: <6243@well.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 88 18:29:41 GMT References: <569@cvedc.UUCP> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 35 In the referenced message, markh@cvedc.UUCP (Mark Holm) wrote: >"Preserving the artistic license of the game" was possibly a bad way to state >it. "Preserving the look and feel of the game" may be better. The lady that I >had make these icons for me went to a lot of time and effort to produce them >(and I thank you for your efforts Dorothy) and I beleive she did a wonderful >job on them. Since 98% of this game is the icons, I was attempting to keep >them from being mutilated and then propagated, thus spoiling the game for >others. As I stated before, if you want them, ask for them, and I will gladly >send them to you. I don't mind Jef disasembling them for his own use but they >should be sent to me for propagation. As he said they are copyrighted. Nope, sorry, I still don't understand what you're getting at. Why would anyone want to "mutilate" the icons? What exactly are you talking about? Replacing Chung with a little doggy? Or perhaps just fixing the number tiles so you can tell which number it is when the arabic digit is covered up? And why will making people send mail to you make them any less likely to do "mutilation"? Considering that your connectivity to the net is via the proverbial "twisty little path of uucp connections", all that you're really accomplishing is making it gratuitously hard for people to run your game on different architectures. I've already had two requests for my re-sourced icons for the purpose of compiling on a Sun 4. I turned these requests down, because X11 form is not what they needed, and I suggested that they send mail to you. That's two people who can't run your game FOR NO GOOD REASON. Ya know, I almost never run publically-distrubited binaries, whether from floppies or the net, for fear of trojan horses and viruses. Your reluctance to distribute source is beginning to make me suspicious. Perhaps I should take a closer look at what's in that object file? --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa ...well!pokey Teaching new dogs old tricks.