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Offline Goober5000

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Re: FS2 License Question
Reply #40 on: October 02, 2009, 09:48:33 am
Quote from: Stingray2000 on October 02, 2009, 08:56:32 am
Additionally, I am aware that GOG contacted this site regarding cessation f assistance in distributing FS2 freely.
GOG did not contact this site and did not ask us to do any such thing.  Where did you get that impression?  We changed our policy voluntarily and without prompting.

We have communicated with GOG, but we initiated the conversation with them and not the other way around.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: FS2 License Question
Reply #41 on: October 02, 2009, 09:52:58 am
So, to sum up: free distribution has always been illegal (barring under the original '99 EULA), there is only one EULA and it forbids free distribution in a completely legal way, GoG is in legal control of distribution, and GoG never contacted HLP to ask for a takedown. We did it ourselves.
 

Offline karajorma

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Re: FS2 License Question
Reply #42 on: October 05, 2009, 02:21:37 am
Quote from: QuantumDelta on October 02, 2009, 09:18:37 am
That said the expressed legal power of an EULA isn't that impressive, though FS2s would probably be considered legal and binding, since it's not as unreasonable as some of the more recent expeditions into DRMesque turf have discovered.

Not to mention it's pretty hard to claim the first EULA gives you the right to copy the game while simultaneously denying the clause in the same document that allows them to patch it. 
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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