[SDL] Porting Games

[Benjamin Deutsch]

Hello!

> I'm sure most of u r porting masters.
> I wanna port a game "Sven Bomwollen" to linux. Is it legal to port the 
> game? 

It should be okay (there are ports of quite a lot of games, after all), 
as long as you don't

 > ...include Phenomedia (creator of the original game) logos and
> so on. 

Um, yeah, that. You can't do that, without their permission. Copying the 
game concepts ("cloning" the game) should be okay, but you can't use 
their artwork! Or names, or level designs... anything they have 
copyright on. Note that most Linux clones have their own artwork, names 
etc. (Forzen Bubble, for example). If you're thinking of commercial 
ports, like Loki did, they were exactly that: commercial.

 > But I think my port will be open source.

That's great, but respect people's copyrights! Neither being gratis nor 
libre will allow you to circumvent that.

Bye,

   Ben