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From: "Paul Bircham" <yaroze@doodlek.globalnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Plagiarism...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:38:13 +0100
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Hi,

I agree with u, for instance I recently recieved some notes from middlesex
Uni for the short course I will be attending and there where a couple of
good ideas using GsBOXF and GsGLINE to create some good effects and if I
where to use them I would credit them as the source of the idea as they use
there own library that keeps the working out of what there functions do
behind closed doors as it where, but they are not to difficult to figure
out.

I agree that worrying if releasing source code that does something so simple
as demonstrate the use of the sony library functions, then many members are
going to find a valuable resource of information disapear.

Paul

Richard Cutting wrote....
>Just to stick in my tuppence worth. It seems to me that a large amount
>of the code that we write on the Yaroze will be pretty much identical
>no matter who writes it.  A large amount will be in no way considered
>original, initialising GsSPRITES and GsBG's and the like. I mean it's
>easier to cut and paste a bit of code from someone elses program to do
>this than type it all out yourself.
>
>I agree that if you use somebody elses library in it's entirety then
>you should acknowledge that person. Or if you blatently nick a cool
>visual effect or something that someones programmed without crediting
>them ( i.e. something original ) then it would be wrong.  But for
>something this trivial there is a danger of making people paranoid and
>stop posting their code which surely is the whole point of this
>project anyway.  Unless I had looked at some of the code that I have,
>I would never have got as far as I have today !
>
>Richard.
>http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rcutting
>