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Timothy Partridge wrote:
[...]
> Are you really sure about this? There is a danger that some well meaning
> person decides to release an extended version of your library, but their
> changes are full of bugs. Your library could then obtain an unwanted
> reputation, and uninformed people might even think think that you were
> responsible for the bugs.

You could always write a followup library that extends the original,
and then explicitly destroys both, on completion of the game.

Heh.  Sorry, I read the "Don Quixote" books not too long ago...

(Oh, go look up the history...)

[...]

