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Re: Descent Licensing Requirements

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From: Corwin
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 17:48
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On Sat, 18 Mar 1995, John Slagel wrote:
> 
>   In my opinion, there should be 1 purchased copy for each netgame that
>   is in progress. That seems fair to all.  But my opinion doesn't count
>   much when legal issues are involved :-( 
> 
>   Anyway...
>   
>   John Slagel
>   Parallax Software
 
In strict legal terms, yeah, everyone should have a registered copy to 
play a LAN game.  Realistically, how would we track it, unless the code 
was modified to require it?

I like John's solution.  Overall, I trust the customer to do the right 
thing. I think everyone understands that, if gazillions of people are 
playing the registered version but our sales are low, we're going to have 
a hard time justifying doing it again.  And that's the object, right?  To 
keep doing cool games.

-Rick Mulligan
 Interplay Productions

My opinions are my own, not Interplay's.  And don't tell the lawyers that 
they let me out of my cage.
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