This package was debianized by Frodo Looijaard on Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:25:05 +0200. It was downloaded from http://dmweb.free.fr/CSBForWindowsLinux.htm Upstream Authors: Paul R. Stevens, FTL Software All art is copyright (c) by FTL Software. The code is copyright (c) by Paul R. Stevens (but read below). According to Paul R. Stevens: > I translated the > game (stole it!!!) from FTL. I cannot claim that it > is mine to give away. I have always said that as far > as I am concerned, people can do with it what they > please until FTL asks that they do otherwise. If FTL > complains I will stop distributing it and will attempt > to notify as many people as possible who might have it. > For now, it is stolen-ware. The webmaster of the site this package was downloaded from, Christophe Fontanel, writes: > Wayne Holder, producer of DM/CSB, is still owning the copyrights (I > think he is alone in that role). > He and the other authors are already well aware of my web site, the fact > that their games are available for download (on many sites, not only > mine), the various clones that reuse copyrighted data (graphics, > dungeon, ...), etc... > As Paul said, they pretty much gave us a "quiet understanding" because > if Wayne was upset by my web site, he would have already told me to > remove the games. He just asked once that I put a copyright notice on > the home page, which I did, and that was all. He just does not want that > somebody make any money by violating his copyrights. But obviously, this > is not our goal and they already understood that. The included author file reads: Chaos Strikes Back was orginally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Software: Director ~ ~ ~ ~ Doug Bell asst.director ~ Dennis Walker 2nd unit director ~ ~ Mike Newton graphics ~ ~ Andy Jaros graphics ~ ~ David Simon producer ~ ~ Wayne Holden Backengineering from atari code and port to Windows: Paul Stevens Port to Linux: Erik Svanberg (email expires 2004-06-06) Rebecka Svanberg The included COPYING file reads: This game is not GPL. It's not even Freeware. It's a port. From: Paul R. Stevens To: Erik Svanberg Subject: CSB: COPYING This game is really not Freeware. It is Stolenware. Here is what Wayne Holder wrote about CSBwin: >Please be aware that DM and CSB are both copyrighted and trademarked >products that belong to Software Heaven, Inc (SHI). The FTL swoosh is >also a trademark of SHI as are the images in the program, the design of >the game data structures and numerous other aspects of the original >product. You and your friend have no right to convert this intellectual >property to GPL because it belongs to SHI. > >Wayne Might he also object to the 'Freeware' label? I don't know the exact connotations of these words.