The tool itself is somewhat easy to code but verifying it works correctly for all games may not be that easy since I don't plan on buying them all again.

I'm curious on how ScummVM will react if LEC does not offer you an official statement or if they disallow you to do it. Maybe I just don't like to see ScummVM being dependent on the judgement of LEC... Sorry for being harsh, but so far you expressed only negative emotions towards our project in you...

Thanks for your response, I can understand that the legal "heat" is stronger now that the games are being officially sold again. Unfortunately I highly doubt you'll get official permission by LEC for anything even if they (unofficially) tolerate ScummVM. After all you did them a great serv...

Of course I know that, I use Linux myself and used scummVM on many platforms. I simply wanted to reject the "not working anymore" argument. Like the original LucasArts releases, the steam versions were never made for Linux/Mac/... Why is it acceptable to make the original versions work on ...

I seriously doubt anyone would fork ScummVM, just because we do not supply an extraction tool for the static data included in LEC's executables. Most probably people will just release such tools third party and people will use it to make their Steam datafiles running under ScummVM IMHO. Yes, I agre...

By "stop caring about your users" I meant the case mentioned in my previous post, where the user that buys the floppy/CD version gets preferential treatment over the (equally honest) steam buyer. I wanted to point out the lack of care about the later. I read that you do not want to interfe...

@Morden: Of course I don't want the scummVM team to get into problems. But why would they? As they said, it is completely legal to make those games run in an emulator. The games have been on sale before so the availability on steam should really not make any difference except convenience and possibl...

This is concerning the decision to purposely not support steam bought game files (sev's post): I really do not follow your reasoning? After all these years there is finally a cheap, direct and easy way to legally obtain those game files. In the past, many people had to (or just did) resort to piracy...