Hi Jim, > * Beyond the Titanic (text adventure game) says in the startup screen: > >>Please note that Beyond the Titanic is a SHAREWARE game. >> >>This game has been placed in the public domain for your enjoyment. > > ..and then it has some text about if you like the game, you should > contribute $5 or $10 to the author. > > However, it's a problem that the game displays a "Shareware" notice > and "Public domain" notice. It can't be both. The "send me $$" text > suggests this is shareware. > > The README.TXT file says this: >>This game was deleted from Apogee's product line a VERY long time ago, and >>has been re-released as freeware in March of 2009. There are a few notes >>you should be are of with the release: > [..] >>4) This game is released as freeware. That's not to be confused with >> public domain, abandonware (which is illegal), or releasing something >> under the GPL. This is a freeware release, which means we retain full >> legal rights to the title and it's materials. You are free to play the >> game as we've released it, but not free to "do whatever you want with >> it", which includes selling it or otherwise using the materials for your >> own gain. > > ..and point 5 says it was released as freeware in 1998, and > re-released in 2009 with source code. > > [Interestingly, further down the Readme, it says the source code is > released under the GNU GPL. But the text above it doesn't agree with > that.] > > This doesn't seem very "open source" to me. I think we need to remove > this game for the 1.3 Final.
Grab the sources, remove the shareware notice and rebuild. They just were to lazy to remove it before releasing under GNU GPL or left it in for "the historical experience". https://jxself.org/git/?p=beyond-the-titanic.git;a=blob;f=History/History.txt;h=04b4fe829a8c0b634821befc916fbd3d8bd8af09;hb=6cb4785e2abee85844e8b04189e286f4f3030719 https://jxself.org/git/?p=beyond-the-titanic.git;a=blob;f=History/gpl-announcement.png;h=1a6a055b07a0d4f39fb5daad0432b415a0cbccdd;hb=6cb4785e2abee85844e8b04189e286f4f3030719 > * SNova ("Supernova") has some issues on the opening screen. It says: >>This game is placed in the public domain for your enjoyment. Please do >>not abuse this product or the author's rights. see above > * WW1 ("Word Whiz") has a "shareware" statement when you start a new game: >>WORD WHIZ - VOLUME I is a shareware program see above Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
