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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:07:18 +1000, Hamish Greig wrote
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> Subject: New Thread: Time to cap grimoires?
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:15
> From: Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
> To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>, Hamish Greig 
> <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
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> > On Monday June 16 2003 02:50, you wrote:
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> > Hamish Greig wrote:
> > >ONce i have finished my current spree there will be atleast a dozen 
> > >binary
> > >games, i had not planned on putting them all into z-rejected.
> > >Some other solution must be reached. I believe Games should become an
> > >exception due to the proprietary nature of many games.
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> > I strongly disagree. Proprietary stuff goes to z-rejected /exactly/
> > because it's proprietary. I respect other's people desire to play a
> > game, but I'd like to maintain a clear separation of free and open

Hi,

Proprietary stuff => z-rejected, no matter it's a game or not.
See the current licensing and spell placement policy (RFC0001) on 
http://perso.compaqnet.fr/linuxxunil/licensing.html

Bye,
Mat.

> > source software on one side and the proprietary software on the other.
> > There may be legal ramifications about what we have in z-rejected,
> > that's another reason for things to go there, so if we're ever in
> > trouble we just blow z-rejected and the rest must be OK to keep.
> 
> I personally think Sergey is right here... I am also keen on the 
> idea of you making a seperate Games grimoire. The neat part of this 
> distro is that you CAN make any type of grimoire you want and offer 
> it to the public. I would gladly keep it on our codex site.... that 
> way you could find help maybe with the various sections of you grimoire?
> 
> I think it is time to expand the horizons as far a Grimoires go, we 
> will need to look at keeping the grimoire of reasonable size and I 
> see no need for 160 spells in games for our standard Grimoires (not 
> that I don't appreciate the great work our guru's are doing).
> 
> A time is coming when we will need to put a cap on the max amount of 
> spells in our official SMGL stable Grimoire. This is a thought I 
> have been having for a while now.... thoughts?
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