Re: [piecepack] Re: Rule Liecenses

["Jorge Arroyo" <trozo@...>]

Hi,

  I appreciate you letting me translate your games, and I've translated one
already :) but I'm not asking people to release their games as Public
Domain. A somewhat free license like the ones from Creative Commons that let
people create derivative works if they are released with the same license,
would be fine. Even if a game has a non-commercial clause but it allows for
derivative works, I could translate it and post in on the net for free,
which is better than nothing...

  I guess you're right about the vacations... I did "port" Froggy Bottom
because I remember that we tried contacting the author for a rule
clarification on SDG and it was quite difficult... and it's such a simple
game to explain that I though it'd be less work...

  Anyway, if I can include about 4-5 games with the sets it might be enough,
so: Froggy Bottom and Penguin Game plus one solitarie (One Man Thrag would
be my choice or maybe Cardinal Guards) and Piecepack Letterbox could be
enough... I'd like to add a deeper game, but I'm not sure about which one...
I see Pharaohs Heir has a GNU license... It may fit well...

  BTW, Jonathan, I intend to do a domino set too. Do you consider Tariffs a
finished game? I see in the wiki that the game is in beta, but I don't know
if that information is still current...

-Jorge

On 8/3/07, porter235 <porter235@...> wrote:
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> I do not want to release my game into the public domain, however I am
> open to working individuals on a one by one basis, just as I have done
> with you. Perhaps you could try sending individual emails to the
> designers whom you wish to work with, in case they are not monitoring
> this list. (Keep in mind a lot of people vacation this time of year in
> North America)
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> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Jorge Arroyo" <trozo@...> wrote:
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> > I think that it would benefit us all to change all our games to free
> > licenses. I'm sorry if some people don't like it, but if someone is not
> > willing to add a Free license to their game, I think it's totally
> fair to
> > "port" and rewrite the rules without using any copyrighted material
> so that
> > the games can reach their potential audience around the world. It sounds
> > strange, porting a piecepack game to the piecepack system, but it
> might be
> > the only solution in many cases, not only if the designer doesn't
> want to
> > add a free license, but for games where the designers are no longer
> > available or responding to emails...
> >
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