[MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>]

Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> 
> On 12:41 PM 5/4/99 -0700, I personally witnessed David Bennett jumping up
> to say:
> >
> >I hope you have talked to TSR about the copyright issues here
> 
> TSR changed their notoriously intolerant online usage policy to one which
> rivals White Wolf's permissiveness about a year and a half ago. See their
> web site for the real details...

Besides, in general copyright only applies if you actually looked at their
product while you created your own design doc. AFAIK you can have someone
make an abstract description of the ideas contained in AD&D while looking at
them, then hand it to a cleanroom team which make a design and implement it.
This is to get a good case in court. For hobbyists I guess that means
sitting in a room stripped for other writings over a weekend writing down
the basic design doc, make some copies and have everybody sign a date
stamped confirmation that it is not based on other designs and that other
designs were not available to those who wrote the design doc. (I'm not a
lawyer) The standard hobbyist evolutionary approach is however a bit more
tricky to defend legally I guess... :(

--
Ola Fosheim Groestad,Norway


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