At 04:37 PM 8/22/00 GMT, you wrote:
>>Only the public domain games could be collected and released in this
>>manner.
>
>Are you sure even the public domain ones could be? How could you (as a
>non-author, non-owner) arbitrarily apply license restrictions to something
>that is in the public domain. Wouldn't you have to change it sufficiently
>that is was no longer even derivative?
You can't change the fact that the original work is in the public domain,
so your copyright would only extend to the changes that you made and/or
your manner of presentation. Somebody else could still use the original
public domain copy in any way they liked, regardless of your new OGC
version.
Rogers Cadenhead
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.prefect.com
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