<div dir="ltr">Hi Team,<div><br></div><div>Despite the expressed opinions, I would still prefer to abstain from it.</div><div><br></div><div>Just think about it. They clearly made it in order to hide from our project ability to directly run the games. They deliberately decided to put additional effort and it is for sure not a mistake or oversight.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For those who are not aware, they hid the index .LFL file into engine executable, so all those patches Matt is referring to, do extract them with use of hardcoded tables.</div><div><br></div><div>I do clearly understand how pitiful this could be for end-users, and that it could lead to frustration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, the safety of ScummVM Team and project is at my highest priority. I just want you guys to continue enjoy hacking ScummVM and sleeping well at night, without any potential threat from lawyers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any other opinions, particularly from the core team?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Eugene</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 June 2014 16:44, Arnaud Boutonné <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strangerke@scummvm.org" target="_blank">strangerke@scummvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi guys,</div><div><br></div>I fully share Matt and Paul's opinions. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Arnaud</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Paul Gilbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulfgilbert@gmail.com" target="_blank">paulfgilbert@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I too would like to see support for the Steam releases incorporated directly into ScummVM. Whilst I've never been involved in any of the legal issues in the past, it seems like this draws a parallel to the prior issue of including Smacker support in ScummVM.. enough time seems to have passed, and none of the other tools have had any legal challenges, that it would seem to be safer to now include support into ScummVM.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Hoops <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clone2727@gmail.com" target="_blank">clone2727@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's about a month shy of the 5 year anniversary of the releases of<br>
the LucasArts SCUMM games on Steam. In those past few years, we<br>
haven't had any issues with that except from users frustrated that<br>
they couldn't play those games in ScummVM:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=9628" target="_blank">http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=9628</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12458" target="_blank">http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12458</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=13521" target="_blank">http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=13521</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7783" target="_blank">http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7783</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10579" target="_blank">http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10579</a><br>
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<br>
And then we just had other users write up their own patches anyway:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/symm/LAAExtract" target="_blank">https://github.com/symm/LAAExtract</a><br>
<a href="http://scummvm.bencastricum.nl/" target="_blank">http://scummvm.bencastricum.nl/</a><br>
<a href="http://gazj.co.uk/blog/2012/11/updating-the-steam-lucasarts-adventures-patch-to-work-on-scummvm-1-dot-5-0/" target="_blank">http://gazj.co.uk/blog/2012/11/updating-the-steam-lucasarts-adventures-patch-to-work-on-scummvm-1-dot-5-0/</a><br>
<br>
I'm completely in favor of a change to our policy on these games. At<br>
this point, even the HE SCUMM games on Steam use ScummVM. We should be<br>
supporting them out-of-the-box just like all the other games.<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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