May I include ScummVM into my Monkey Island Collection?

Ludacris · Post by **Ludacris** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:39 pm

Hi development team,

I am currently picking together my Monkey Island disks and riping them as they are getting quite scratched (after having them for more than 10 years now) and making one collection with MI and some goodies, I found over the internet.
Anyway, to play those, you need ScummVM, as we all know.

So, may I include it to the Disk?

Thanks in advance for your support

Ludacris

Jade · Post by **Jade** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:43 pm

scummvm can't be bundled with copyrighted material, note i am not on the dev team but due to the seriousness in which such matters are handled here i am certain that is the case

Ludacris · Post by **Ludacris** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:09 pm

Aww

a pitty

Ceri Cat · Post by **Ceri Cat** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:42 pm

So long as it's for your personal use only it's not a problem that involves the SCUMMVM team. But then any backup made of original discs such as that example you're not allowed to share the backups regardless, doing so becomes an act of piracy from the moment you made the dupe.

Post by **sev** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:12 am

Here is the official answer:

ScummVM itself is free software. You can do everything you want to do with it, just provide the sources. As of the LucasArts games, those are copyrighted, and you're not allowed to distribute copies of them.

Eugene

Ceri Cat · Post by **Ceri Cat** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:39 pm

Hey Sev you thanks your explanation is probably clearer to people. I've spent too long in the case documents again.