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Re:Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine by tormeh on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:06PM (#12770984)
It's just an engine - you have to get the content from Blizzard. OpenMW is doing the same with Bethesda.
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Re:Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine by zanny on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:35PM (#12771105)
You don't have to get consent from anyone without reusing, redistributing, or modifying their copyrighted materials.

A cleanroom reverse engineering is perfectly legal, without any "permission", in most countries.

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Re:Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine by prewett on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:06AM (#12772225)
Yes, but distributing the copyrighted art with your clean-room reverse-engineered engine is not legal. Hence, no art is available for this engine, and you have to procure your own copy of the art, presumably from the CD you purchased, in order to use the engine.
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Re:Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine by zavandor on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:57PM (#12771468)
That's what FreeCraft folks thought too
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Re:Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine by dleslie on Saturday October 22, 2016 @11:30PM (#12771743)
That was a dispute over the name; rather than fight it they changed the project name to Stratagus[0] and released Wargus[1].

0: https://launchpad.net/stratagus

1: https://launchpad.net/wargus

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