Re: world building (software)

[email removed] writes:

>
>     1. That jbayer's documentation might violate the copyright in some way.
>        He should be very careful to avoid using paragraphs similar to
>        paragraphs in the world building book.
>
>     2. Jbayer could violate copywrites by distributing tables from the book.
>        Remember that copyright covers the form of a book, NOT THE INFORMATION
>        IN THE BOOK!  As long as jbayer does not display tables that look like
>        the tables in the book he is OK.  Also, using tables from the book is
>        fine, it is displaying tables so that they look like tables in the book
>        that is a problem.

Does this mean that I can distribute a compiled version of the program,
but not a source code version?  The source code version would obviously
contain tables from the book, in almost the same format as the book.

Regarding documentation, all I would supply would be instructions for
running the program.  All interpretation would be referred to the book.
This would solve # 1 above, I think.

Is there anybody from Digest Group or GDW on this mailing list who could
respond with some more concrete information?


JB
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