Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Legal aspects of Computer version of the game RISK Message-ID: <2378@antique.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 20:57:51 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 22 Summary: References: <364@soleil.UUCP> <3309@crash.cts.com> <3498@rayssd.ray.com> Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) In article <3498@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (Gregory M. Paris) writes: > >Sorry for so much included text, but I had wondered about this when the >computer version of Yahtzee was posted to comp.sources.games a while >back. It would seem to me that the author (and distributor?) of that >game would be in the same boat as the hypothetical RISK computer-gamer >mentioned above. True? I don't think Yahtzee is as much of a problem. Yahtzee is a repackaging of the game called Yacht, which I remember reading the rules for in a "Hoyle's Rules of Games"-type (maybe not Hoyle's per se) games book. I believe that implies Yacht is public domain. There is probably a trademark on "Yahtzee", but its look and feel is free. -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp "Docking complete... Docking complete... Docking complete..."