HLA Adventure is now in the Public Domain

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As of June 12, 2004, "HLA Adventure" is released into the Public Domain.

The Creative Commons License for "HLA Adventure" is listed on the HLA
Adventure website below:

http://members.tripod.com/~panks/hlaadv.html

This means that:

1) "HLA Adventure" is free to distribute, modify, make derivative works
thereof, and otherwise use.

2) "Mippy the Dragon" is also free to distribute, modify, make derivative
works thereof, and otherwise use.

3) "HLA Adventure" and "Mippy the Dragon" are no longer Copyrighted works,
as of June 12, 2004.

I, Paul Allen Panks, being the author ("The Author of HLA Adventure and
Mippy the Dragon") hereby grant "HLA Adventure" and "Mippy the Dragon"
into the collective works of the Public ("Public Domain").

Additionally, I, Paul Allen Panks, being the author ("The author of HLA
Adventure and Mippy the Dragon") grant a royalty-free permission of
distribution, modification, copying and otherwise use of "HLA Adventure"
and "Mippy the Dragon". This includes all "HLA Adventure" source code,
derivative works of "HLA Adventure", and any and all images or works
relating to or derivative of "Mippy the Dragon".

Sincerely,

Paul Allen Panks
dunric@yahoo.com
ICQ# 12234336

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"Paul Allen Panks" <panks@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in message
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> As of June 12, 2004, "HLA Adventure" is released into the Public Domain.
>
> The Creative Commons License for "HLA Adventure" is listed on the HLA
> Adventure website below:
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~panks/hlaadv.html
>
> This means that: ...


Trying to be helpful here (and trying NOT to start a copyright thread

The Creative Common license that you refer to is this one:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
This is NOT a public domain license -- it says that you
retain the copyright for "HLA Adventure", and requires
people making use of it to give you credit.

If you apply ANY conditions to "HLA Adventure" then by
definition you're not putting it into the public domain.
I think instead you should be linking to this page:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/.

> Additionally, I, Paul Allen Panks, being the author ("The author of HLA
> ...
> relating to or derivative of "Mippy the Dragon".

I don't think you need to say this. Once you've made
a Public Domain Dedication, eveything in this paragraph
becomes irrelevent -- you've already given away your
rights, so there's nothing more to be added.

Cheers, Roger
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