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In article <1030@saturn.ucsc.edu> (Steven Grimm) writes:
>In article <2731@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> (John Saponara) writes:
>>The classic mainframe game 'Empire' is now available on the Atari ST.
>I'm working on a port, too -- but mine will be PD.  It'll make a really nice
>online game for BBSs.

Be careful. There are a two flavors of empire, one with gold, and sectors, 
and many players, the other with Troop Transports, Carriers, Fighters, etc.
This second one, originally appeared on DEC mainframes (it was written in
Fortran) and was later ported to the Vax. For a while it was available on
a DECUS source tape. Well the author, Walter Bright, sold/gave/whatever
the rights to this program to Interstel, and no one else. He asked DECUS 
to stop distributing it and they did. So you cannot 'port' it and make it
PD legally. All you can do is re-write it and make the version *you* 
created PD. Not that Interstel will probably sue you, although they 
could. Walter's last known mail address was at Data IO :
bright@dataio.Data-IO.com
 ...!fluke!tikal!dataio!bright


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