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From: "Paul Bircham" <yaroze@doodlek.globalnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Plagiarism...
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:36:36 +0100
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Robert Swan wrote
>You dont have to credit ideas and routines from the course as they are
>so general. Plus, the gline thing was inspired by James Rutherford, and
>the fading boxf trick is standard issue. The bgedit program that you can
>use on the yaroze is by James Shaugnessy, who has kindly let us use it.
>There is a different issue with the course notes, and that covers the
>copyright because the notes are based in an academic environment, and
>other universities could just lift the notes and use them for
>themselves, which author copyright helps prevent. (but some unis are
>using the mdx studd anyway:( )Otherwise copyright has no place on the
>yaroze.


OK, I wasn't sure about some of the effects in the notes, if I used them I
would at least put a note on my page saying that the info for doing the
effects was learnt from Middlesex Uni, if only once just to say thanks to u
for setting up the course and offering it to net yaroze members, as for the
course notes they wouldn't be much use to many people as you use a library
of functions that you and Peter created (Im not sure who created it
actually), and I see your point that other Unis rather than do there own
notes would take yours as I have recently looked at the 3D tutorial on your
website and I found it very useful for 3D stuff, thanks.

The BgEdit program, I will have a look at it, hopefully it will be easier to
create maps, and hopefully it will be less time consuming, I was going to do
a program that allowed you to create a map, but had no idea how to get it
from the yaroze, back to the PC.

Can't wait to go on the course, just a couple more days

Paul [Doodle]