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Original IP roguelike for the Chaosforge?
thelaptop:
--- Quote from: rchandra on November 14, 2012, 10:44 ---slightly off-topic... how much of DoomRL is still using id's IP improperly? Doom was GPLed apart from its WAD, right? The music is mostly Simon-v, Sonic Clang, etc. Level design certainly doesn't match any original Doom game.
Of course DoomRL itself is not GPLed yet, so that would be a different problem.
--- End quote ---
My guess would be things like the general story line, the names of the monsters involved, their overall behaviour.
It's pretty intangible, but knowing how lawyers work, the further we are from such similarity, the more defensible it gets, should it reach that point.
Gamer-man:
to make it more interesting, lawyers almost never actually send cease and desist letters because they actually want the project to stop, instead they are usually sent enmass so that the company that owns the rights to an ip can claim they tried to protect it. Generally, if you reply to a cease and desist letter requesting information, they won't bother replying. If they don't, the company doesn't actually want you to stop (or at least they don't care if you do or not), they just want to protect their claim to ownership of the ip.
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