ORIGINAL: shunwick
Colin,
This is from the license agreement at the back of the manual (sorry about the capital letters but that is how it appears):
THE ENCLOSED SOFTWARE PROGRAM AND THIS MANUAL ARE COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS
ARE RESERVED. THE ORIGINAL PURCHASERMAY PRINT OR HAVE A PRINT/COPY SHOP MAKE A
PRINTOUT AND/OR COPY OFTHE MANUAL. MATRIX PUBLISHING, LLC GRANTSTHE ORIGINAL
PURCHASER OF THIS SOFTWARE PACKAGE THE RIGHT TO USE ONE COPY OF THE SOFTWARE
PROGRAM. YOU MAY NOT RENT OR LEASE IT, DISASSEMBLE, DECOMPILE, REVERSE ENGINEER,
OR MODIFY THE SOFTWARE IN ANYWAY. ALL EDITORS MAY BE USED TO CREATE SCENARIOS
THAT MAY BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED. ALL SCENARIO AUTHORS HOLD THE ULTIMATE RIGHTS
TOTHEIR DESIGNED SCENARIOS AND MATRIX PUBLISHING, LLC MAKES NO CLAIMS THEREOF.
YOU MAY NOT COPY OR DISTRIBUTE COPIES IN ANY MEDIA FORM. ANY PERSONS DOING SO
SHALL BE GUILTY OF COPYRIGHT VIOLATION AND SUBjECT TO THE APPROPRIATE CIVIL OR
CRIMINAL ACTION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
Best wishes,
Sorry -- I should have said the original Talonsoft releases. Those said the opposite: that scenario designers gained no rights to any scenarios designed using OPART. To the extent that anything a software maker may claim affects the rights of those using the product to create something else, it seems to me that Silvanski doesn't have anything to worry about legally.
