>> I steal a copy, go into a text editor, change it a little bit, and change >> the copyright to ME. I now use it in my mud. >BUZZ! Notta, theres a little thing called plagiarism, and go and ask any >english teacher, and plagiarism is not fixed by changing a small portion >of the work, if you use that work, as a base, or unmodified, it is still >copyright that person. Well, technically, you can get away with using someone else's copyright work as a base, if you change at least 70% of it. [Or that's what I was told several years back by someone.] But then, I guess if you changed 70%, it'd be essentially your own work.. Oh well. Steve +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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