<story><title>OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000</title><url>https://github.com/rage8885/OpenSC2K</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;bad faith&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;slimy&amp;quot; should really apply to 24 year old game assets.&lt;p&gt;I value useful creation much higher than dated intellectual property.  Or in other words, I do not support long-tail profit and control of any creative work.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>EA is actively selling SimCity 2000 at least on GOG.com. With that in mind, I think there can be no real gesture of goodfaith on the author&amp;#x27;s part.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s lazy, maybe just the &amp;quot;easy way&amp;quot; to do it in the beginning, but when the game is being actively sold, it&amp;#x27;s also slimy.</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Its very questionable to include the assets.  The bottom of the readme says:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Includes assets and graphics extracted from the original SimCity 2000 Special Edition CD. These assets are NOT covered by the GNU General Public License used by this project and are copyright EA &amp;#x2F; Maxis. I&amp;#x27;m including these assets in the hope that because the game has been made freely available at various points in time by EA, and because it&amp;#x27;s 24 years old as of publishing this project that no action will be taken. Long story short, please don&amp;#x27;t sue me! Long term, I plan to add functionality to extract assets from the original game files within this project.&lt;p&gt;The normal way for these open-source engines work is to insist that the users get the artwork from another source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&amp;gt; should&lt;p&gt;I suspect virtually all of us here agree that copyright terms are too long, but this still looks like wilful copyright infringement.&lt;p&gt;Not that it would make any difference if EA stopped selling it on GOG. The idea of &amp;#x27;abandonware&amp;#x27; has absolutely zero legal standing, as far as I&amp;#x27;m aware.&lt;p&gt;Other games companies have been very unaccommodating about this kind of thing before, even when game assets weren&amp;#x27;t used - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Chrono_Resurrection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Chrono_Resurrection&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000</title><url>https://github.com/rage8885/OpenSC2K</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;bad faith&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;slimy&amp;quot; should really apply to 24 year old game assets.&lt;p&gt;I value useful creation much higher than dated intellectual property.  Or in other words, I do not support long-tail profit and control of any creative work.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>EA is actively selling SimCity 2000 at least on GOG.com. With that in mind, I think there can be no real gesture of goodfaith on the author&amp;#x27;s part.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s lazy, maybe just the &amp;quot;easy way&amp;quot; to do it in the beginning, but when the game is being actively sold, it&amp;#x27;s also slimy.</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Its very questionable to include the assets.  The bottom of the readme says:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Includes assets and graphics extracted from the original SimCity 2000 Special Edition CD. These assets are NOT covered by the GNU General Public License used by this project and are copyright EA &amp;#x2F; Maxis. I&amp;#x27;m including these assets in the hope that because the game has been made freely available at various points in time by EA, and because it&amp;#x27;s 24 years old as of publishing this project that no action will be taken. Long story short, please don&amp;#x27;t sue me! Long term, I plan to add functionality to extract assets from the original game files within this project.&lt;p&gt;The normal way for these open-source engines work is to insist that the users get the artwork from another source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meddlepal</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s fine, but when you get sued into oblivion don&amp;#x27;t come complaining that you didn&amp;#x27;t know it wasn&amp;#x27;t OK.&lt;p&gt;Lobby for law changes if you don&amp;#x27;t like the law.</text></comment>