andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (11/10/85)
>> There has been a sudden rash of questions about the old Zork adventure game >> which has made me itchy to give it another go. >> Does anyone out there have the source available? If there isn't enough need >> to post it to the net (is it even public domain?!?), I'll be glad to send a >> S.A.S.Tape to anyone who would take the time. The binaries won't help me >> much since I'm on a 20 bit machine. >> >> --pat traynor-- >> > To the best of my knowledge Zork, including the original, is not > in the public domain. If the original Zork was public domain, then InfoCom > could not copyright Zork I because everything in Zork I was in the original > Zork game. Even if the facts were as stipulated (some of the features of Zork I are not in original Zork), this reasoning would not be valid. It is perfectly proper to prepare a work which resembles a public domain work and to give your new work copyrighted status. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]