| RACER USAGE - READ BEFORE MODIFYING SOURCE CODE |
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| The programs and source code of the Racer project are copyright of Ruud van |
| Gaal, Dolphinity, 2000-2001. |
| All rights reserved. Publishing of included material without prior written |
| permission of the author is prohibited. |
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| Publishing of material downloadable here may however be done on a |
| non-commericial basis. In this case, I would appreciate it if you send me a |
| note regarding where you make available the material. |
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| Use of any of the published source code in commercial software is explicilty |
| NOT allowed without prior written permission. Distributions on Linux |
| distributions (as is done on SuSE8.0 for example) IS however allowed. Use of |
| (parts of) the source code in non-commercial software is allowed however. |
| For commercial usage, licensing may be an option, for which you can contact |
| the author. |
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| This is NOT an Open Source project, although many people think so. You CAN |
| contribute to the source if you want (or cannot resist), but all changes |
| will go through me to the master source code. This is done to ensure quality |
| and consistent style for instance. Also, parts of Racer (the QLib/D3 |
| libraries) are used in other projects, and changing the source code of this |
| would be counterproductive for the other products that use these libraries. |
| Therefore, the decision has been made not to OpenSource the source code. |
| Realise that the copyrights will stay at Dolphinity, so for many people this |
| will mean that they won't contribute to the source. This is ok to me, the |
| product seems not large enough to need the whole world to aid in developing |
| (except for the contents; cars & tracks). To add to the Racer project and |
| maintain control, it is advised to create separate executables, which may |
| use parts of the source code, but are not completely separately usable |
| products. This means you can create a Replay Analyzer which uses track code |
| from the Racer source code, but that you may NOT create a complete racing |
| game based on a specific era for example, and distribute this commercially |
| as a separate product. |
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| If you have any questions on the usage of the materials presented in the |
| Racer site, please contact me. |
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| ADDITIONAL COPYRIGHTS (PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN PARTS OF THE SITE) |
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| Sports Car GT Copyright Electronic Arts 1999 |
| F1 2000 Copyright Electronic Arts 2000 |
| Microsoft Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft |
| Grand Prix Legends is a registered trademark of Papyrus |
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| All other trademarks are property of their respective companies. |
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| No SCGT tracks can and will be found on this website. You are (probably) not |
| allowed to post directly converted tracks onto your website, but you can |
| upload Racer-specific files (but not the images and directly converted DOF |
| models). |
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| Ruud van Gaal |
| last updated August 11, 2002 |
