UberDeux

w0dk4 wrote:
Even if Microsoft at the end of the day decides to actually sell FL again, thats also good news.
Imagine FL being re-released on Steam or GOG.com. That would already be a major milestone.

I’ll send an e-mail to my contact at M$ see what i can come up with.

Won’t the copy right run out after a period of time? And if it does that opens the door for someonelse to get a license to redidstribute the game. At least that’s what I belive will happen. Of course as soon s some does microsoft will want a piece of the pie again. It’s like the who dat slogan. People have ben saying ti for years and selling goods. Now someone got a copy right and are trying to mpnopalise the slogan for their own gain. So check the copyright laws look for their expiraton dates then reapply for your own coptright. Then you can sell the disk yourself if you can copy it.

US copyright laws define the expiration date to be 75 years after the author’s death (following the Mickey Mouse Act). This might be slightly different for games, but is still so long as to make derivative work essentially useless once they are actually permitted.

That won’t work.

Hi FF, In China that about 50 years, and maybe other country lower than this? So we can break this limit in other country?

But even we can use it as abadoneware, we cannot improve it too much. A good plan is…. make a new one AS open source software and authorization under BSD or other license… But take look the ending of OpenLancer…

Unfortunately, the US laws would most likely apply since the developer was from the US. They’d sue in the US.