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> it wasn't at all licensed Is there any information that it was even possible to "license" a small game written in BASIC which appeared in various printed for
by acqq 8y ago
> it wasn't at all licensed
Is there any information that it was even possible to "license" a small game written in BASIC which appeared in various printed forms and various versions rewritten by various people?
- jhbadger 8y agoPerhaps not, as computer games were probably unknown to lawyers at that point. But this sort of thing (even when done totally not for profit and purely out of love of a franchise) gets shut down quickly today -- there are many mods and such that were given cease and desist notices for using characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc.
- acqq 8y ago> this sort of thing ... gets shut down quickly today That seems to confirm my belief that if that was the idea behind it, the attribute "dubious" is anachronistic, i.e. appearing to be so only when observed out of the context of that time, as if it would happen now.