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Licensing an Abandonware Game?
WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away."
Damn it!
I have a mod point and I don't know whether to call you a troll or insightful.
touche.
-- Sig under construction...
Talk about Internet turning people into pottymouths. Have you tried giving fm6's message a charitable interpretation? You seem to have magic powers, since you can judge someone's personality based on the tiniest bits of evidence.
Obviously some, like you, are retarded fuckheads.
It's disheartening the way that the internet - coupled with distance and semi-anonymity - somehow compels people to spew such verbal abuse.
In real life, would you say that sentence to a person that you've only just met?
*sighs*
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
On the internet, you can actually turn words into links. I believe this technology is referred to as "Hypertext."
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!