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COPYRIGHT
I keep all rights on Colonial Conquest. You are
however allowed to copy it to other people as long
as you copy all textfiles (including this
"Copyright"-file!) with it and don't ask more than a
nominal fee of 4$ (5 DM) for the disk. Fred Fish, to
whom this game was originally sent is EXCEPTED from
this restriction and may therefore ask more money
for the copying of this program.
If you are managing another Public Domain series,
you are invited to take Colonial Conquest on it too,
but I would be very grateful if you could inform me
and send me a copy of the disk you have put Colonial
Conquest on. Please notice that you are bound to the
above restrictions! If you want to be excepted from
them for some reason, you will have to ask a written
permission from me!
If you wish to translate the manual into another
language, you should inform me first so that I could
take it over into a future version of Colonial
Conquest. You are however NOT allowed to sell
Colonial Conquest for more than the 4$ mentionned
above, even if you have written a 200 page manual!!!
(I write this because some people in Germany have
started to make money with PD by writing short and
cheap manual-translations and selling the discs at
prices above $10!)
Colonial Conquest is giftware. I have hesitated for
quite a long time to make it shareware, but as I am
the kind of guy who is too lazy to pay something for
shareware most of the time (shame on me!) and
because I don't like the feeling of being (morally)
forced to pay for something, I finally decided to
ask for a donation (nice word for payment, as Dave
Smith said before!) of 10 Sfr or 10 DM (7$, 5£ etc)
if you like the game and play it and therefore would
like to see it improved.
Now, you don't have to blush in front of your
monitors - I'm seriously not believing that I will
become millionaire that way. I would even say: If
you like the game but don't feel very rich, just
write me a letter without money and I will be very
happy anyway. The thing is that I'm student too and
therefore not the kind of guy who sends 1000$-checks
to giftware programmers. (Though I wouldn't prevent
you from doing so, really!). By the way: don't send
checks - I mean checks with small money amounts - as
it usually takes more money to cash them in than
they are amounted to!
Of course, you will get a nice letter in return of
your money, saying thank you in 23 languages (and a
little bit more, of course!).
I even would like to say a big THANK YOU here
already to the incredible two or three persons (out
of the 12'567 who will play my game) who will make
the effort to send me the money! Thank you, thank
you, thank you...
If you are writer of any magazine or fanclub-paper
and want to write about Colonial Conquest, please
feel free to contact me for questions. I would also
be interested in all forms of cooperation. (Release
of the 2nd version on a disk magazine, German
version of Colonial Conquest and so on...)
If you have programed a game too, I would also be
interested in your work and experience with Public
Domain!
Send your comments, your wishes for a 2nd release,
your bombs (if the program has crashed for cryptic
reasons!) and of course your (unneeded, unnecessary,
nonessential, superfluous) money to:
Christian Mumenthaler
Langgrütstr. 178
CH-8047 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Zürich, 14. October 1993.