Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/11/26/20:35:50
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.
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