From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 06:37:25 +0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: fprintf() and using under graphic modes In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Message-ID: <94369943501@out.newmail.net> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 26 Nov 99, at 15:22, Shawn Hargreaves wrote: > Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel replied: > > So IMHO you should be able to bundle the trial univbe version and > > a program to crack it (there are sooo many on the www) with your > > game without any copyright infringment or illegal things occuring. > > That sounds extremely illegal to me! Actually Shawn, what made me suggest this was as the game company which market's Settlers2 distributed univbe on there cd in this way (ie unmodified trial version plus a crack to "register" it) So i was wondering that maybe a responsible game company wouldn't do it if it is illegal. (They wouldn't want to take the chance of being sued) And maybe since they are distributing the trial version (allowed by scitech) and I don't think scitech really can say anything about you distributing a crack program seperately (ie:- you arent cracking univbe yourself , you arent distributing the cracked version and you should be able to distribute a program (the crack) if the author allows it, without restrictions by other companies (scitech)) there really maybe no illlegal issue happening. I might be wrong but any comment's would be much appreciated. Bye, Grendel.