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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:18:24PM -0500, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
>
> > I'm all for moving z-rejected into it's own grimoire.  I've been for it 
> > for months.  For that particular section, I felt, if we're going to 
> > reject something, either completely move it out of the main grimoire so 
> > that the user makes a conscous effort to have them available through a 
> > scribe add, or to just add the warning message and integrate them into 
> > the main grimoire, not set them off to the side.  In other words, all or 
> > nothing, with preference given to all.  A second reason for moving it 
> > out had to do with the fact that it mirrored the main grimoire so well. 
> > Spells from every other part of the grimoire were appearing, and by 
> > making it a grimoire, we could add multiple sections with in it for 
> > where each spell would belong if they were not rejected.
> >
> > Anyways, if we're going to do this, let me know, and I'll begin work on 
> > setting it up as a grimoire.
>
>
> A 'rejected/binary' grimoire sounds very good to me. One question about
> that: Will the sources of spells in there be mirrored? I'm asking
> because that could possibly go against licenses (like xvid, which
> doesn't allow redistribution in the usa and japan).
My recommendation would be to mirror everything that to the best of our 
knowledge does not have a restriction on mirroring.  Which I noticed, 
now that you mention it.  We are mirroring that file currently.  We 
should probably have it removed.

Geoff