Re: AW: Comment About OpenTTD

OpenTTD has a multiplier has well... I do miss the track over tunnel though=
...

On 2/23/08, GB <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I play both. I love new features from OTTD, but I can't forget
> TTDPatch multiples train acceleration and track over tunel.
>
> gb
>
>
> 2008/2/23, Fabrik Silva <[email protected]>:
> >
> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 hav=
e
> > > been created illegally, but the majority either don't know about it o=
r
> > > don't care about it. My personal opinion is that the current copyrigh=
t
> > > owner of TTD is unlikely to do anything about this (especially that n=
o
> > > 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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> > Fabrik Silva
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Fabrik Silva
Volar sobre cielos de nieve en un para=EDso Dal=ED

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