From: "David Braben" <dbraben@frontier.co.uk>
To: ibell@ibell.co.uk
CC: "Guy Herbert" <guy@marjacq.com>, "David Walsh" <david.walsh@frontier.co.uk>
Sent: 23 February 2005 16:31:40
Subject: Pirated Copies of Elite
Message-ID: <02b901c519c5$27610a90$060611ac@corp.frontier.co.uk>

Ian,

I notice you have reinstated the archive of various hacked/pirated copies of
Elite on to your site at
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/index.htm

As you know, I have always wanted to make the original Elite binaries
available via shareware or via the Elite Club, which would require
permission of all the copyright holders. Neither of us has this. From your
site, you seem to take this wish (that I have stated both privately and
publically) as permission for you to unilaterally make such copyright
material freely available, license free, and with no copyright message. You
have no such permission, and what is being done with this site is a serious
breach of my copyright.

Please remove these files immediately. If you are prepared to grant
permission for me to do the same*, I will give permission for you to
reinstate the binary and data files under a shareware license (ie NOT
sources). Until that point the files must remain off line.

David

*Which includes getting permission from Chris Jordan, if needed, who claimed
to me he had bought your residual rights in Elite.