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[Waku]

Freewaring Discworld

In short, we have all the approval needed to move forward with supporting the game and making Discworld freeware. However Discworld is NOT freeware at the moment. It may be in the future, assuming all goes according to plan.

Whether the gamedata release will have a DFSG/OSI compatible license remains to be determined.

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Geduld.

Beide Teile laufen schon in ScummVM, und mittlerweile wirds woll auch niemandem mehr interessieren wenn man's sich anderweitig beschaft. Momentan hängts immernoch an dem schönen, alten Problem von verwittweten IP's.

What's holding up the freewaring?


An obscure legal situation.

I believe one of the devs mentioned that the rights appear to be in limbo.
Due to bankruptcy, corporate takeovers, incomplete contract clauses, deaths and untraceable individuals, it can become impossible to establish who to ask about the IP rights to something.

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Prachett selber hat das Freewaring schon lange abgesegnet von seiner Seite.