[Coco] SRB (c) software Notice

[Roger Taylor]

Dear CoCo community,

It has been brought to my attention numerous times now and in the 
past that no software or games written by Steve Bjork can be 
distributed, and is why I have gone through any archives I've passed 
along and removed any of his old titles.  The wish is that these 
titles die until the rightful owner chooses to do something with 
them.  The problem is that they are all over the web and easily end 
up in archives unless somebody painfully goes through each disk image 
or directory and deletes them.  The general rule is that once 
something is on the web - " it ain't going away ", so... Houston we 
have a problem.  The problem is that everybody seems to be sharing 
this stuff except for me.  I truly believe that most everybody has a 
"free" copy of all of the SRB titles, based on how many times I've 
seen them just by googling around sites and such.  The math says that 
the typical CoCo file leecher (that's a good thing), *probably* has 
one or more of these games somewhere and might not even be aware of 
it.  People who share their stuff might not be aware they are 
breaking any rules.

I wanted to make it clear that if anybody has gone the extra mile to 
send these old games to the bit bucket, it has been me.  Not because 
I want them to vanish from history, but by request.  Just now, going 
through the Drive Pak's disk #27, I noticed popcorn.bin and 
analyzer.bin and immediately deleted them.  Luckily, I just added 
that disk recently, and it's on nothing I've sent out.

I also want to make it clear that the pak is still a great product 
even if it's sent with a blank card, and that in no way will the 
contents of the card be considered the product itself, nor am I 
making any profit off of a single file I've grabbed from the web and 
placed onto the card.  In fact, I'm about $3,000 in the hole with 
making these paks and might not ever see a dime of profit.  It's a 
labor of love.

The good part is that you can add your own disks and files to the pak 
quite easily.  So if you purchased one of the SRB games back in the 
80's or 90's and you wish for it to be on your pak, there's plenty of 
room for it, and you can just use BACKUP to get it on there, but 
don't distribute such a card image to anyone else, because there's no 
proof that I didn't put the files there, and I don't need any drama.

Still, there are probably 2,000 P.D. CoCo programs on the distro card 
at this time.  You won't be a bit disappointed when you don't see an 
SRB game.  There's just too many other cool games.



-- 
~ Roger Taylor