Duck and Cover

O.k. this is a portion of Chris A. e-mail to me,I hope it will give you an idea:

---- BEGIN FORM LETTER ----

Here's the official word, and the official word is that (1) we can't give an
official word, and (2) this should not be taken as "no," but as a "if you
want to do it, you'll have to proceed at your own risk."

Confusing? Let me explain:

To give you an official word, we would have to sign contracts, which BIS
doesn't have the time to do.

If you still want to use the Fallout stuff, you would have to abide by
trademark and copyright law regarding the Fallout license, and to do that,
BIS recommends you ask an intellectual property lawyer.

Lastly, this is not official permission, but as long as you don't use the
Fallout license to generate income or in such a way to misrepresent or harm
the license (e.g., put it up on a webpage that advertises child porn), or
include misrepresentations or material that harms the license in the Fallout
game/mod/whatever that you're making, or make it appear as though Interplay
is the source of your material (e.g., "This is the official
Interplay-sponsored MUSH!"), you should be all right.

Again, this is not official permission, just a guide for what BIS suggests
you do if you want to use the Fallout license. We just want you to know if
you choose to use the Fallout license, you could potentially be taking some
legal risks.

---- END FORM LETTER ----

There is more and some claryfying comments, but I'm not including them, because:

a) Mr. C.A. is not a lawyer
b) Mr. C. A. couldn't really speak on behalf of BIS/Iplay or whomever else.

I basically wouldn't like to "hang" the man for trusting me and looking into my problem. Also note that these are just some remarks on similar cases.
[Edit]Since it is in FO Bible as I remembered I chose to remove the last part it was undesirable[Edit]

That's what he said in the FOB 8. Word for Word. He just copy-pasted it

No, it was what he said to me priorly(and i think a group of other 9 individuals). I copy-pasted from the e-mail. I wouldn't lie about that and I don't like lying without reason(and considering I'm having to for an occassion lately, I don't feel good about it).

If you want Red check the top topic here, and you'll see I'm also saying what you said. I'm just bored to search for the text so I've done this.


Cheers,

Flamescreen

thanks Flamescreen even if it was mentioned in Fallout Bible i dont remember anything like that

Flamescreen wrote:(...)as long as you don't use the Fallout license to generate income or in such a way to misrepresent or harm the license(...)you should be all right(...)

So my opinion is, that you are allowed to put your mod on Cover CD as long as you:
- don't receive money for this
- don't say that it is official Interplay/Microforte/BIS/whoever product...
- ...but include notice, that it was made using official FT Editor and works with FT:BoS which are Interplay/Microforte/BIS/whoever products.

P.S.
But MacBeth, you perhaps already know my opinion from our forum. ;)