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Copy this copy that, left, right, which way is up???



Ok, pass out the flame throwers!!!

The intent of me putting out a game is for it to be "copylefted". This 
means (at least to extent of my feeble understanding). OK the "all 
rights reserved" part is a boo-boo, and probably should be 
changed to all rights subject to [Fill in your favorite open 
license], that's why it is rev 0.1 ;)

But, copyleft is the correct thing IMHO. You must first copyright the 
work (hell I had to type it up!), and you are able to do that with 
game instructions. I this case, SOLO is a common-law copyright at the 
moment. I wouldn't bother to send in drafts to the C.O. Copyleft 
requires some distribution clause like the GNU GPL. I haven't stuck 
the legal mumbo on that yet either. 

IWBN if someone put together a nice boilerplate for the naive waifes 
of the group (like me) that we could attach to these types of rules 
postings!

BTW, I'm not giving up my day job anytime soon.

Dave. 
PS: sorry for any confusion, all the code I usually write 
professionally is copyrighted, and I never worry about the details 
because that's what we pay the lawyer for.