Re: Copyright Symbol © on the Apple II GS

[vastats@gmail.com]

On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:51:25 AM UTC+9, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, vastats@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:35:32 AM UTC+9, Egan Ford wrote:
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> >> On 1/12/13 3:56 PM, BLuRry wrote:
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> >>> I guess that I should disclose that Jace is a complete ripoff of AppleWin.
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> >> Well I should disclose that http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver is a
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> >> ripoff of your game server
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> >> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/a2gameserver/).  I even stole your
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> >> graphics.  But I also attributed to you.  From the README:
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> >> * BLuRry and SicklittleMonkey. The logo, games, game info, and the
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> >> concept ripped off from the original a2gameserver.
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> > Oh and dont forget the database....LOL
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> And some of the tape-related trickery I did which is based on someone 
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> else's tape-related trickery and on the ideas of Exomizer... xD  But it's 
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> not theft - first of all I don't give a damn how my stuff's used and it 
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> would be hypocritical for me to be any other way.  Second, it's a 
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> completely different implementation, if I understand correctly.
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> I come up with ideas - usually others expand on them.  That's a good 
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> -uso.

And Uso, I believe my little program there proves that point.  However, the specified words being "improves upon", not just copying word for word.