
			Distribution of textures
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1.00 Designing textures
2.00 Extensions
3.00 Payment

1.00 Designing textures
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It is recommended that those who are interested in designing new species of
texture begin by modifying and combining elements from existing textures. 
The textures supplied with the Texture Garden program have been placed into
the public domain by the author.  These may be modified to any degree and
distributed by anyone interested in doing so.

There are currenly several archives of textures available from the author's
web site.  These textures are not normaly distributed with Texture Garden.

So the author does not have a monopoly on distributing textures, the
"Super-user" version of Texture Garden will write texture files with correct
checksums, enabling people other than the author to distribute textures
readable by the freeware version of the program.  This should encourage a
diverse variety of inexpensive textures to come into existence.

The author intends to broaden the range of textures he is able to provide
with the program.  The program has been written in a modular fashion, to
enable third parties to write extension modules that provide new features for
his program.  He is prepared to pay for the privilege of distributing both
textures and third-party extension modes.

Textures submitted to the author should preferably be original textures, not
mutations of existing species, crossbreeds, or old textures with new
palettes.  Only textures that increase the genuine diversity gene pool of the
program are of interest.  The existing textures provided with the first
version of the program were all written in the process of testing the
program, and only scratch the surface of what is possible using the program.

The author regrets that aspects of his marketing technique make it difficult
for those with the Freeware version of the program to design new textures of
the type specified above.  However, submissions and correspondence from
unregistered users will always be welcomed.  Note that textures do not have
to be submitted with correct checksums; the author will deal with this.

Because the textures distributed with Texture Garden are in the public
domain, a useful way of generating new textures is by starting from existing
texture programs (see the first paragraph of this file).

If you would like submitted textures to be distributed with Texture Garden,
then you MUST relinquish the copyright to the textures in writing.
Otherwise, it would be very useful if you could please include a statement
of copyright in the body of each texture (and its palette, if appropriate).
Distribution conditions should also be included with any copyrighted
textures.  Although the author is happy to distribute copyrighted textures
independently from the program, only textures capable of being placed in the
public domain will ever be distributed with the program.

2.00 Extensions
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Language extensions are considered by the author to be considerably more
valuable than textures.  Documentation (including a summary in similar format
to the "Language" file), source code and example textures all further enrich
their value.

Compensation for authoring language extensions will always exceed the sum
paid as a registration fee.  Hackers with time on their hands and who are
inclined to pit their brains against the author's in an attempt to try to
overcome the limitations that have been placed upon the operation of the
freeware version of the program, please take note of the following:

The author has tried to make life difficult for hackers of the main part of
this program.  If you like hacking, then backing up the program before doing
so may prove very beneficial.  The author will endeavour to ensure that the
methods used in "cracking" one version of my program will not work with
future versions; rather than fighting with him, the author invites you to
enter into a co-operative, productive, mutually beneficial relationship with
him by writing extension modules.  This might not be quite as much fun, but
it should provide a better return on invested time.

3.00 Payments
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The author cannot guarantee any particular payment scale.  Contributors are
hereby advised that payments will be made partly in the hope of encouraging
future contributions.  The intention of posting the values of payments made
in future versions of this documentation is expressed.  Although payments for
individual textures will be small, prizes will be awarded at regular
intervals to the author of the 'best' texture(s).

Information regarding texture design is contained in the files "!Help",
"Language", and "Technical".

Information relating to writing extension modes is contained in the
"Extensions" file.

The author's address is available in the "Contact" file.
