On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:19 -0700, alan wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 20:48 +0200, Götz Waschk wrote: > >> On 5/15/06, Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> This package is in PLF because it is unclear from a copyright point of > >>>> view. MandrakeSoft will not distribute it until LucasArts have decided > >>>> about > >>>> the situation. > >>> This looks like it was written a while ago...is the situation still > >>> unclear? Could this be moved to contrib? > >> > >> You should be the one who knows this :-) I don't think Mandriva wants > > > > What? Who? Are you referring to the Mandriva employee who happens to > > have the same name as me but is of course an entirely different > > person? :P > > > >> a program like this in the distribution. It is basically an emulator. > > > > Meh, I'm not so sure. I'd say it's more like prboom, which is in the > > distro already, with the difference that it's a reimplementation not a > > modification of GPL'ed code. But the effect is the same. I guess I'll > > ask the scummvm guys what LucasArts thinks of them now... > > Not like it competes with Lucas Arts at this point. Was there ever a Star > Wars game that runs on ScummVM? > > Lucas Arts seems unwilling to sell anything that does not have a Star Wars > tie-in, no matter how successful. (Insert nasty Sam and Max cancelation > remark here.)
Well, not to go miles off topic, but they did at least let someone else pick up the Sam and Max license... but yeah, that was my thinking too. It actually works in LucasArts' favour, because it enables people to play the games not just on Linux but on XP (where many of them don't really work properly), thus driving sales of the SCUMM games that are still available (several of them are). I guess maybe 50% of the current sales of them wouldn't happen without scummvm. -- adamw
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