Re: [piecepack] Re: New game added to the wiki: Piecepack Isle

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

Yes. The rules for the Good Portsmanship contest covered this.

http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/pp7.html

Ron

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, littlebrothertimmy
<littlebrothertimmy@...> wrote:
> You're welcome :-)
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> I explicitly did not add anything about the rights, since the original game is still available. The rules I made are not mine, so I have no rights over them. I just adapted the original rules, so this game can be played with the piecepack system.
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> Does anyone know how to handle a situation like this? Am I allowed to have some kind of power over rules that aren't really mine (in the sense that I can say these rules can be coppied, modified, and/or redistributed)?
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> Hope the read your replies.
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> Roger
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> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, Ben Finney <ben+yahoogroups@...> wrote:
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>> "littlebrothertimmy"
>> <littlebrothertimmy@...> writes:
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>> > I've added a new game to the wiki: Piecepack Isle.
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>> Thank you!
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>> As it stands, the rules document is non-free: recipients have no license
>> from you to copy, modify, and/or redistribute the work. In the spirit of
>> Piecepack, I hope you will want to rectify that.
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>> Could you please release the rules document under free license terms,
>> such as the <URL:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>
>> CC-BY-SA-3.0 terms? (Note that CC's “NC† and “ND† restrictions would
>> make a work non-free, so please avoid those.)
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>> The Creative Commons site for that license leads to how to apply it
>> <URL:http://creativecommons.org/choose/non-web-popup?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en>;
>> it involves an explicit notice in the document of the fact that you hold
>> copyright, and what license terms apply.
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>> Thanks in advance for making Piecepack games as free culture!
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>> --
>>  &#92;     “We are human only to the extent that our ideas remain humane.† |
>>   `&#92;                          â€"_Breakfast of Champions_, Kurt Vonnegut |
>> _o__)                                                                  |
>> Ben Finney
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