Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


26 Oct 1995 11:02:26 -0400

In article <46lvm4$cco@flood.xnet.com>,
Jason Compton <jcompton@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
}Andrew C. Plotkin (erkyrath+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
}: I'd think that Activision would have to be insane to license out games
}: which they currently have in print themselves. I guess you can ask,
}: though.
}
}: Also -- maybe I'm paranoid, but could you be really vague about the
}: nature of ZIP and Inform if you talk to Activision? Like, not say
}: anything at all. Activision is a huge company, and huge companies sue
}: by reflex. I can just see a court ordering Graham Nelson and Mark
}: Howell to be dropped into a shark pit for "pirating code owned by
}: Activision". Regardless of the truth of the situation.
}
}That was my plan. In fact, I was planning to ask for the rights to, say,
}the C-64 or Apple II or Amiga version-one they aren't selling, hoping
}they wouldn't catch the fact that it doesn't matter one bit, we can all
}play it anyway. :)

Activision's had people on this forum, so I suspect that they know
about ZIP and Inform. There are possible infringements on if-archive
(and I'm not saying what they are, for obvious reason), but in my
inexpert opinion neither ZIP nor Inform qualifies -- they could only
violate patents on the Z-machine, and there aren't any (so far as I
know).

-- 
Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."