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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Feb 1998.
Re: SigZag - !!!! The ULTIMATE signature creater !!!!

Re: SigZag - !!!! The ULTIMATE signature creater !!!!

In article <1d4...@mp-9-21.mp.usyd.edu.au>,
red...@Death-Star.comSpAmMeNoT (Kwan Yeoh) wrote:
> 
> Kangaroo <kan...@cyberdude.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
> 
> > So in summing up, although making SigZag shareware was just an experinment
> > [me secretly dreaming someone would want to pay:)], to remove almost 7000
> > pieces of art is totally against the idea of making the program.  So, I
> > will make it FreeWare.  Now I will wait a few days before uploading the
> > freeware version, so if anyone objects to ascii art being distributed in a
> > freeware package, email me pronto.
> 
> No objection here (although, yes, an objection to being included in any
> shareware thing without my permission), but a suggestion. If you spent
> so much time creating a program, if you want to recuperate some costs by
> making it shareware, I don't think anyone has a problem with that. The
> objections are against putting others' art works in the bundle. So what
> if you were to seperate the two into two different downloads? The
> shareware program in one bundle & the library in the other. Now, you'd
> still have to get permission from lots of people to include their art in
> a freeware package if they say so, but I think most people would be okay
> with that.
> 
> Kwan.

This looks like a reasonable solution to me. If there are indeed two
packages, and the art package is freeware, I am happy to have anything I
have produced be in that Freeware package.

By all means, Kangaroo, recoup your losses for making your program and
make a shareware program and Freeware library.


(It must be February! There are so many cranky people!)

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