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Legal question about track converters

Mike Barlo

Legal question about track converters

by Mike Barlo » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

    Just curious.. I understand that the tracks.dat file must be changed in
order for it to be legal to be claimed as no longer a Papy track(?)  what
needs to be changed and by how much?
Jeff Vince

Legal question about track converters

by Jeff Vince » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:39:25 GMT, "Mike Barlow"


>    Just curious.. I understand that the tracks.dat file must be changed in
>order for it to be legal to be claimed as no longer a Papy track(?)  what
>needs to be changed and by how much?

   That's true if you are providing the copyrighted Papyrus tracks in
the package.  David's convertor is simply taking Papyrus tracks (that
you've already purchased yourself) and editing them (which *might* be
a Papyrus software license violation, but they don't seem too
concerned about it).

"But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was
nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into
a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

Rikanthr

Legal question about track converters

by Rikanthr » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:39:25 GMT, "Mike Barlow"


>    Just curious.. I understand that the tracks.dat file must be changed in
>order for it to be legal to be claimed as no longer a Papy track(?)  what
>needs to be changed and by how much?

   That's true if you are providing the copyrighted Papyrus tracks in
the package.  David's convertor is simply taking Papyrus tracks (that
you've already purchased yourself) and editing them (which *might* be
a Papyrus software license violation, but they don't seem too
concerned about it).

"But in a way, fear is a big part of liscencing, because if there was nothing
to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could copy a program, and ripping
off the public would not exist as a sport." -- papyrus

??????
:D

Bob Thurma

Legal question about track converters

by Bob Thurma » Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Basically you can distribute a patch that substitutes your
data for the Papyrus data. You can not have ANY
Papyrus files in your patch.

buzard



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