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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by oh_sigh on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:18PM (#17339916)
No one is distributing them. If you have the content files, you can point the open source engine to read them.
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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by darkstar999 on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:30PM (#17340021)
What do you mean?

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution/blob/master/Source/...

This seems like distribution to me.

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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by oh_sigh on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:53PM (#17340199)
Oh, sorry, I thought the comment I was responding to was nested under the 'freeablo.net' discussion, and not the main thread. You're right that this person is distributing stuff they shouldn't be. I'm guessing it will be removed from github shortly.
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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by davidcbc on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:27PM (#17339999)
The guy on Github is distributing the source files which have a Blizzard copyright notice on them saying not to distribute them.
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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by joecarpenter on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:49PM (#17340170)
Which is really weird. Because the code is reverse-engineered and I'm 99% sure the author used Hex-Rays Decompiler (due to variable names, etc).
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Re:Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game by bananaboy on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:59PM (#17343491)
Looks like he pushed a change to remove the copyright notice: https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution/commit/bb01c6f084b8...
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