Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Apr 2007 21:29 UTC

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2007-03-12
sure the deal you mentioned is about redistributing unaltered binaries, not about a new derivative work based on the sources.
That's always been my understanding of the limit of the contract Bernd Korz got his hands on. How he managed to twist it into something else takes my breath away. If a game company shuts down and all its intellectual property rights get put into limbo or transfered, it doesn't give the publisher the right to sell modified copies of the game. If there was a code leak and hungry fan base, you couldn't use it to create and sell a fresh version, and a patch would be so deep in murky territory it's not funny.