Re: AW: [ttdpatch] Comment About OpenTTD

["Fabrik Silva" <fabrik.silva@(domain hidden)>]

I think they shouldnt be so wary about the copyrights issue when most
(if not all) the people who's currently playing does it with either
the Patch or the OpenTTD. Why caring so much about a copyright that
saw its heyday back in 1994?

On 2/23/08, Csaba Varga <csaboka@(domain hidden)> wrote:
>
> > I'm just wondering, how was OTTD built? Was it rebuilt from scratch based on
> > information from reverse-engineering of the original game?
>
> It was created from the disassembly of the original TTD executable.
> This means that it may not have been legal to put it under the GPL
> license.
>
> We've had this discussion already on TT-Forums, in fact, it was long
> ago. There are some people who refuse to play OTTD because it may have
> been created illegally, but the majority either don't know about it or
> don't care about it. My personal opinion is that the current copyright
> owner of TTD is unlikely to do anything about this (especially that no
> one seems to be sure who exactly owns the copyright), so it is safe
> not to care about this. (*)
>
> Regards
> Csaba Varga
>
> (*) I am not a lawyer, so this wasn't legal advice.
>
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