Would Amiga versions of certain titles be considered free?

[marzipan]

(In this community, that is?)

I don't know if somebody already asked this before, but what's your stance when it comes to the legality of obtaining non-PC-based titles for free?


For example, do you consider the Amiga version of Lure Of The Temptress to be as legally freeware as the PC version? The Amiga community seems to think so, and indeed Back To The Roots - a legal Amiga download site who always consult the copyright holders before making stuff available - has it available for download.

Likewise, BTTR managed to convince Sierra years ago to make their adventure titles (both AGI and SCI) for the Amiga available for download too.

Overall, I'm just keen on whether you guys would frown and wave your finger over anybody pointing to a download of, say for example, Larry 2 Amiga? I'm just looking for some clarification, tis' all.

[Kirben]

Back to the Roots got permission from companies/developers to provide many Amiga games for download. Those games still aren't freeware though, and can't be distributed by other web sites, without permission.

[marzipan]

Good point, although it seems Revolution are pretty easy when it comes to giving permission, judging by the author of the AmigaSYS bundle who has a Revolution bundle pack amongst his downloads containing Lure and BASS (and this post seems to suggest he did ask them, I think).

[fingolfin]

If Revolution gives explicit permission, then it is of course fine by us.

But in general, if a company released version A of a game as "freeware", that doesn't mean version B is also automatically freeware. Of course if they explicitly released *all* versions as freeware, that's OK.