Licensing an Abandonware Game?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 12, 2010 @07:37PM from the rolling-the-dice dept.

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."

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Re:Contact the Owners by houstonbofh · 2010-03-12 20:01 · Score: 1, Redundant

Contact.... Do you want to find out the owner is a patent troll before or after you do a lot of coding?
Oh Look by BarryNorton · 2010-03-12 21:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's this thread again. Did something change since last time this was discussed?