Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of questions about their copyright:
This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few restrictions in on use. But here are a few : Restrictions : Crack dot Com retains ownership of the Abuse Trademark and data sets. Disclaimer of Warranty : As with most Public Domain software, no warranty is made or implied by Crack dot Com or Jonathan Clark. Export Restrictions : I'm not a very legal person, so I don't know if PD software can be exported countries subject to U.S.A. export restrictions (currently Cuba, Yugoslavia, Hati, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria). Just to be safe don't put it there. Things you CAN do : Make another game and sell it commercially Use bits and parts as you see fit. Learn how to make a better game Port Abuse to any system you like. This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some us-only ftp site, or what? Also, what is being released into the public domain is the abuse engine, but not the data files for the actual game (levels, sounds, so on). Those still have a non-free copyright. So there will probably be a abuse-libs package that is in non-free, which will stick abuse, which will depend on that package, right back in contrib, where it is now. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .