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[Oddworld]

if any1 knows a link to Marathon, plz tell me...

[BeefontheBone]

sigh. i'd report you, but there's no report button in here...

EDIT: my mistake, it is freeware. i assumed it was gonna be the same as the oddworld request. sorry.

[Ignatius]

http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

All three marathons can be found there.



It's freeware, isn't it? O_O

[Gundato]

I dunno. I just consider it legal abandonware

[A. J. Raffles]

Gundato, on May 26 2005, 11:46 AM, said:

I dunno. I just consider it legal abandonware

Unfortunately it's completely irrelevant what you or I consider. Incidentally, there's no such thing as "legal abandonware".

[BeefontheBone]

Well if Bungie are letting you freely download it (the only thing that page says is that it's not open source) then it's freeware, surely?

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, yes. I just somehow didn't like the sound of "I dunno. I just consider it legal abandonware ". But maybe I'm just being paranoid...

[BeefontheBone]

That is a stupid sentence, it's true.

[Oddworld]

thank you for the link!

[Sean]

BeefontheBone, on May 26 2005, 02:12 AM, said:

sigh. i'd report you, but there's no report button in here...

EDIT: my mistake, it is freeware. i assumed it was gonna be the same as the oddworld request. sorry.

Actually Beef....

http://www.the-under.....Abe's Exoddus

One of the Oddworld games is up for download at The-Underdogs

[BeefontheBone]

That doesn't mean it's freeware though, just that HotU consider it abandoned.

[Aureliano]

Let's not forget that HotU has Ogre Battle (playstation version) and several super nintendo roms up there, which are not freeware by any stretch of the imagination. They just list whatever they can put without having legal problems.

[Tom Henrik]

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Wow... can I do whatever I want with this stuff?
NO. Bungie still holds the copyrights to these files. They're allowing them to be distributed for free (mostly because you can't buy them any more) - but they're still Bungie's intellectual property. You can't, for example, sell them.

Seems like the games were released as freeware, but I would really like to see an official statement from the Bungie company.

Edit:
I can't find anything stating this game as freeware. Nothing on the official game site, and nothing on the sites they are linking to.  

Edited by Tom Henrik, 28 May 2005 - 11:08 AM.

[BeefontheBone]

The link with the downloads above describes them as "freely downloadable but not open source," but I'm with Tom (great minds...) - an official statement of some kind would be nice. If anyone wanted to do a review and screenshots etc, they could try emailing Bungie and see what they say about the freeware status of the games.