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Originally Posted by BippyM
At what point does software legally become abandonware? If this is legally abandon ware, and zero chance of eab being in the firing line then we don't mind. Show me evidence that it is abandonware.
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I don't want to get into a discussion of the law, so just to answer the question: apart from death without a legal heir or an expired copyright (not the case here, US, UK & EU copyright are all valid for at least 70 years), there actually is no such thing as "legal abandonware".
The term abandonware is something that people made up to justify spreading copyrighted works that have been out of print/not on sale for a long time. Do note that I personally fully agree that it's rather silly that copyright lasts for seven or more decades and that stuff that hasn't been on sale in 30+ years is still fully protected by copyright. Nor do I personally see the problem with hosting/downloading such content.
But nonetheless, it's all still under copyright. Hence my answer
