[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kazan
aldo: it would include that

when you "Buy the rights to a game" you buy all the copyrights and that includes the content and game engine

I think the FS3 storyline would be considered outside the license scope as I don't believe it would have been given to Interplay in the first place.   Whilst the conceptual stuff is trademarked, I don't belief the specific use of it is (at least in this sense).

Of course, possible evidence in this is that Derek Smart (*cough********cough*) was blabbering on about getting in someone to write a 'freespace-accurate' storyline or similar rubbish.   Which either implies he couldn't get access to the proper Volition storyline, or that he has such a monsterous ego he'd feel obliged to (re)write his own hackneyed plot.

Anyways, I believe the copyright would only extend to the existing storylines of FS1 and 2, and the rights to create new storylines based upon those.  I don't believe it could enclose any 3rd party storylines which may -or may not- exist.

[karajorma]

Not to mention the fact that if someone tried to compel [V] to give up their plot they'd probably just write down any old rubbish on a piece of paper and say that that is as fas as they got

JBX-Blitzwing : PXO is dead but FS2 Multi player certainly isn't. Game Warden has a nice guide on how to get online with FS2_open and also seems to serve as something of a meeting place for people looking for a game

[Kie99]

If there is no hope for Freespace 3 (I said it, sue me) then why are registering www.freespace3.com and why don't they tell the community the storyline?

[aldo_14]

Resale value.  Or simply to block other commercial use of it; perhaps they thought someone would use it to associate another space sim with the FS series, for example.

[Kazan]

um why would i object to someone using my open source programs so long as their usage doesn't violate the GPL