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Not libre. Too bad, if I were the Elite creator I'd put all the game ports under a libre license. Anyway, nowadays you can play Oolite on a cheap netbook and ha
by anthk 3y ago
Not libre. Too bad, if I were the Elite creator I'd put all the game ports under a libre license. Anyway, nowadays you can play Oolite on a cheap netbook and have the exact same fun, if not more due to the huge addon list for it.
- lstodd 3y agoThat's Braben being a dick about copyright. Bell on the other hand was a nice guy and released most that he himself wrote.
- mattlondon 3y agoThere is quite a lot of history around the releases that goes back several decades. Braben et al didn't want to weaken the copyright I guess since they were doing Elite 4/Elite: Dangerous.
- chrisjj 3y ago> There is quite a lot of history around the releases that goes back several decades. Much generously documented by Ian Bell e.g. David Braben sues Ian Bell for libel https://groups.google.com/g/uk.legal/c/ZmgmhpuitXQ https://groups.google.com/g/uk.legal/c/ZmgmhpuitXQ David Braben sues EMAP for copyright infringement https://web.archive.org/web/20160328014216/http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/a/b5082800.png https://web.archive.org/web/20160328014216/http://www.eliteh... David Braben threatens the Elite Home Page https://web.archive.org/web/20230824005005/http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/cix/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20230824005005/http://www.iancgb...