Comment by codethief
10 hours ago
Never heard of gog.com before (not much of a gamer anymore these days) but it looks really cool! I wonder, though, how exactly do they handle the copyright and licensing topic? Do they negotiate terms separately with every copyright holder? Do they get access to the source code in order to preserve the games and make them fully offline-compatible?
> Do they negotiate terms separately with every copyright holder?
Yes
> Do they get access to the source code in order to preserve the games and make them fully offline-compatible?
Sometimes, sometimes their role is just packaging the game with a dosbox config too, or a developer provided drm free build