I am posting here in hope that an administrator could see this.
I have been looking for the source code of Master of Orion and Master of Magic for at least 15 years (Especially Master of Magic). Normally, I would have asked the company who made the game to release the source code like many other companies did before for games like: Doom, Descent, etc). But we all know that the original company got bankrupts and the intellectual property changed hands multiple time which made the source code lost in ancient ruins during the process ... and then we called Indiana Jones to retrieve it .
A few days ago, I talked online to a person who worked on some of the master of orion games who claims to have a friend that should have a copy of to the source code to some of the MOO games. He did not tell which one. But he does not want ask him to release the source code because he does not have the right to do so from his point of view.
So I thought that if I could just ask on Wargamming and Atari's forums if they are willing to allow the release of the source code and state under which license and conditions. If wargamming agrees, simply post your answer in this thread and I will redirect my contact to this forum thread as a proof of your approval.
Now, some people claimed on another thread that wargamming only have rights on the Intellectual Property but not the source code. I looked at the wikipedia article about abandonwares:
https://en.wikipedia...Abandonware#Law
They talk more about the distribution of games than the source code, But one things interesting is that it depends on the will of the original copyright holder to enforce his right. So if wargaming does not have rights on the original source code, then the only company who does have rights is Sim Tex and they are dead. So I don't think they can actually enforce their right. But again, law systems being very complex, I could prove to be wrong.
So if some admin could give an answer with condition and license, I would be very happy to hear from it . One thing for sure, there is still hope that the source code exist, so don't despair.
Thank you for your time.