As to the rest of your post - EAW IP? - why are you asking here?
If you don't wish to start anything then don't here!Please don't attempt to 'bomb' my thread or make controversy to 'bury' this information.
Frankly as far as EAW IP rights I stand on this agreement freely available for anyone's perusal from my website link below:
http://eawonlinux.neocities.org/Atari%20-%20Simhq%20&%20%20European%20Air%20War.pdf
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In this way it is also understood that no such discussion or game development shall
pertain to, be directed at, or be in furtherance of any activity that seeks to, does or
will exploit such game code or the game title for any commercial or profitable
purpose, that thereby diminishes or dilutes the good will in or to such game and/or its
trademark (in part or whole), or that otherwise disparages or casts a negative light on
Atari Interactive in any form, any of its affiliates, and/or their respective intellectual
property rights, business activities, or ownership of the aforementioned title proffered
upon this agreement.
Additionally I have copies of the direct email from Mr Chenais the Atari CEO (and now complete owner of ATARI brand lock-stock and barrel) from his personal blackberry phone that futhermore said, to paraphrase, "We could offer .exe's or downloads or any packages we wanted at the SimHQ forum as long as it was for non-commercial purposes, etc..
(we to my understanding meant the then major long-term members of the SimHQ forum present at the time, most of whom who were also members of
SEAWC and the newly formed EAW Code Group who were participating in the discussion with him via 3rd parties and programmers - I won't elaborate here its not the place to! )
My EAWonLInux website offers links to downloads of EAW that are no different from those offered by the code group, MrJelly and Sandbagger's.
Anyway if you want to make a controversy please get out of my EAW on LIVE USB thread!
If you have some issue don't single me out when for over 10 years MrJelly and Sandbagger's has offered downloads of EAW spinoff's...
I'm the only one in all these years that has made headway into the use of EAW on Linux.
It all started when a certain Game Developer supposedly representing RetroGames could not get the game running on Steam.
While I don't understand Steam APi, etc. like maybe you would being a programmer above my meager old-school hacking skills., I do non-the-less have a certain penchant for studying, then hacking about with stuff and getting it to work.
If anything the company that has any IP rights to EAW (and franky there is none now for the 1.28e which is not copywritable IMHO since it contains extra source code not made by any Game company IP holder and not covered by any agreement that would allow commercial use of the product without a long legal battle.
Ok well, that wasted about 1 hour of my lifetime... and to what end? I only made so many dedicated efforts to EAW which might make any re-issue of the product viable and no one ever paid me a dime...!
And it may behoove me to actually pursue a contract soon to end this controversy once and for all - but then one may be under a non-discloser agreement already - in which case I couldn't say so , now could I?
I'm sure some of us here are familiar with such contracts. Not to mention names..
umm.. Aldo..Did I mention I already worked for one of the largest game companies in the world and probably know more about such matters than most people here?