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Not libre. Too bad, if I were the Elite creator I'd put all the game ports under a libre license. Anyway, nowadays you can play Oolite on a cheap netbook and have the exact same fun, if not more due to the huge addon list for it.



That's Braben being a dick about copyright. Bell on the other hand was a nice guy and released most that he himself wrote.


There is quite a lot of history around the releases that goes back several decades.

Braben et al didn't want to weaken the copyright I guess since they were doing Elite 4/Elite: Dangerous.


> There is quite a lot of history around the releases that goes back several decades.

Much generously documented by Ian Bell e.g.

David Braben sues Ian Bell for libel https://groups.google.com/g/uk.legal/c/ZmgmhpuitXQ

David Braben sues EMAP for copyright infringement https://web.archive.org/web/20160328014216/http://www.eliteh...

David Braben threatens the Elite Home Page https://web.archive.org/web/20230824005005/http://www.iancgb...




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