Simon Cooke wrote: > > >I really wonder how it does stand with regards to him? Technically, as > >the SAM version is only a patched Speccy one, it could be okay ... but > >it is a funny position. > > Nah - it's being sold for profit; this is the kind of thing that David > Braben would get stroppy about.
Well I understand by reputation he's an incredibly nice, approachable, reasonable person. Not! > Also, Bob said: > > >> > Full versions of the Amstrad game were purchased on the open > market. > >> > The discs (3 inch) or tapes were then scrapped and replaced with > SAM > >> > discs. In this way there was no defrauding of the original > copyright > >> > owner. > > This is actually illegal; the purchaser of the SAM version must own the > Amstrad version - that is, they must receive the magnetic media on which > the game was originally distributed - for the license to use the > software to be assigned to them. Destroying the media just means that > you can distribute it as if it fell off the back of a lorry. Does including the original packaging - in the light of the disks apparently being sold on seperately - come to the same thing?
