[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath - Source Code

Lee leep at tigerbase.com
Sat Aug 22 11:38:42 EDT 2020


Here's Douglas J. Morgan's original Grant of License:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100911232420/http://frodpod.tripod.com/lisence.html

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Lee


On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 3:41 AM William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:

> On 2020-08-22 12:49 a.m., Andrew wrote:
> > Well - I guess this basically concludes almost everything, and thank you
> > to everyone who chimed in. Again, I think the license is for the game
> > design, but I really don't know that for certain, it just seems to be
> > worded in a manner that reflects that, and says nothing about the code
> > itself, which would seem to indicate that the code is still under
> > copyright and proprietary (so, who knows what the legality of any
> > disassembly is, and/or copies of the game that exist out there). A field
> > day perhaps awaits for a future law firm, maybe?
>
> Yes, definitely. This is ultimately a question for a lawyer. Should I
> get a request from authenticatable request from the actual rights
> holder, I will, of course, remove my disassembly. Given the length of
> time it has been up, however, I don't expect any action to materialize.
> (Reconstructed source code with comments reading like a novel may
> actually be sufficiently creative to avoid tripping on copyright
> liability in light of that license since it's obviously not the original
> source code. It gets complicated.)
>
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