Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

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From: David Charlap
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 16:53

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In article <1992Aug6.053454.23059@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
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>Hi.  has anybody noticed that OS/2 2.0 games has a "game" called
>"Cat and Mouse".  It is EXACTLY XNeko.  I don't remember what
>XNeko's status was (PD, Copyrighted, GPL, ...), but I'm willing to
>wager real cash that this stuff was lifted.  They could have at least
>given the author credit.

Neko is a public domain package.  The OS/2 version was written a while
ago (I ran it under OS/2 1.2 for a while).  IBM bought the OS/2
version from the person who ported it.
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