World generation program

A thread of 2 messages, 23 August 1989 to 24 August 1989, in the order they were sent.

#507 World generation program

Jonathan Bayer · 23 August 1989

Greetings, fellow travellers :-)

I am currently working on writing a program to save me the trouble of
rolling dice.  I am making the program based directly on the World
Builder's Handbook, put out by Digest Group.  My questions are this:

1.	Is there, and if so, what kind of copyright problems would I
	have if I wanted to distribute the program via this mailing
	list?

2.	Is there interest?

3.	Assuming that there is a copyright problem, would there be
	interest in my sending the program to people who have proved
	(via a receipt or other hard copy) that they own the book.



I await your replies (hopefully I do not need an asbestos suit)


JB
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Jonathan Bayer		Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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#509 Re: World generation program

James T. Perkins · 24 August 1989 · reply to #507

> I am currently working on writing a program to save me the trouble of
> rolling dice.  I am making the program based directly on the World
> Builder's Handbook, put out by Digest Group.  My questions are this:

There are others on this list, who probably wish to remain anonymous,
who would be able to answer your question regarding copyrights.  If they
have a reply and wish to retain their anonymity, I'd be happy to
manually edit and forward a reply.

Jonathan, take a look at Page 96 of the WBH.  It should answer your
question very nicely.  To paraphrase, the WBH will be made available by
Digest Group on computers (IBM PC, Macintosh, Apple II, Commodore
64/128), available Jan 1990.  The WB program will be $24.95 for IBM and
Mac, and $29.95 Apple II and Commodore.  They are also sending the UWP
data for "37 sectors in and near the Imperium", called "Second Survey
Data", which will also cost 24.95/29.95.  They aren't taking any pre-orders,
though.

Maybe somone on this list could convince DGP to let them do a UNIX port
of the software and data files?