I'm not trying to copyright my idea I'm just saying that if someone takes
this code and decides to retype it and say it's his he is still under my
agreement.
Kyle Goodwin
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From: James Turner <turnerjh@XTN.NET>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: [RELEASE] Wilderness/ASCII Mapping System
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 5:12 PM
James Turner <turnerjh@xtn.net> writes:
Following up to my follow-up. You can't copyright ideas (I misread
that part initially). He can license his code, but not his ideas. If
he chooses to patent them then he perhaps could.
Too bad his ideas have appeared elsewhere many times. I've not looked
at his code, but overhead maps are on a number of muds. Call it
wilderness if you want, it's still the same idea.
The world doesn't revolve around this guy's patch.
Maybe someday I'll release my overhead code... but let me tell you, it
can be really hard to get it right. You have to work on a lot of
places... just recently, I found a bug where I wouldn't have expected
-- flee! Ah well, that's a product of using a single room to hold
everyone and everything on the map. But I digress.
--
James Turner turnerjh@xtn.net
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~turnerjh/
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