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From: librik@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Amusing bloopers during development (spoilers)
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ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis) writes:


>This is what happens at 4:30 AM when you've been hacking around the
>insides of your new object run-time library for several hours and
>accidentally mix up the calling order of a certain function:

>COLOSSAL CAVE: An Interactive Fantasy
>Copyright (c) 1993 by Palmer T. Davis. All rights reserved.
>Copyright (c) 197mumble by Will Crowther and Don Woods.
>Release 1 / Serial number 930101

Is ADVENT copyrighted?  I don't think so.  In which case, you shouldn't be
able to declare a copyright on it for yourself, either.  (Correct me if I'm
wrong.)  If you're going to port ADVENT, and it's in the public domain, is
your port is in the public domain as well?

Is Will Crowther still at BBN?  I doubt Don Woods is still at Stanford.
You might ask them about this if you can find them -- not as though anyone
else ever asked their permission, but then that was back in the Good Old
Days when we wrote programs like this so people would enjoy them, and gave
them away for free.

- David
