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From: gyro@blarg.net (Gyro Gearloose)
Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.announce
Subject: Level authors, CD ROM publishers, and id
Date: 17 Jan 1997 15:58:10 -0000
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Several CD ROM publishers have popped up again, raising questions
about copyrights, release agreements, giving permission to publishers
for the inclusion of levels, getting ripped off, and so on.  The
answers are not always obvious.

I've put up a page at http://www.blarg.net/~gyro/cdroms.htm that
describes how I have been responding to CD ROM publishers and what
my reasoning has been.  Currently, it's not much more than my own
babbling, although I have tried to make it as reflective of
opinions and information from the people that I have been able to
talk to and that have given me feedback as possible.  If you are a
level author and have been contacted by a CD publisher, please
check it out.  Feedback and more information is needed to clear up
some unanswered questions about this stuff.  Thanks!

- gyro

http://www.blarg.net/~gyro/cdroms.htm  (sorry for posting the above to
the quake-c group... my dork bit got flipped to true by an interrupt)