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Clositoday at 6:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Atari own all the IP and copyright.

While OpenTTD is open source, it's basis is really that the original game was reverse-engineered, originally using the original assets, and then rebuilt.

Also all the map data etc is owned by Atari, so you need to have a 'genuine' copy to access all the levels etc.


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paxystoday at 6:05 PM

What copyright? OpenTTD doesn't copy any code or assets from the original game. It is a ground-up rewrite. There is no copyright violation.

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lstoddtoday at 6:19 PM

What levels? TTD, Open or no has no levels, only a map generator, and you seriously don't want to try the reimplementation of the original one.