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Even on GOG, it's usually illegal to re-sell games you bought to other people, if I understand correctly. It's a minor point since there's no technical barrier
by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Even on GOG, it's usually illegal to re-sell games you bought to other people, if I understand correctly. It's a minor point since there's no technical barrier to resale, but that's one difference between physical games and DRM-free digital games.
There's a small number (~100?) of commercial games that also allow resale through Creative Commons licenses on itch.io. you can use filters like "assets-cc4-by-sa" plus "code-gpl3" to find games like that, but there's a lot of possible license combinations so it's difficult to see all games like that at once. I've also seen a couple of digital commercial games that allow resale but had some other restrictions (e.g. forbidding reverse engineering), from Humble Bundle, if I remember correctly, but in those cases I didn't know that was allowed until after I bought the game, so searching for games like that seems pretty difficult.
Maybe there are games on GOG that allow this too, but I don't know how I'd search for them.
- frollogaston 1mo agoExactly the type of reason some people want literal physical discs. You don't own the data on the disc, but you own the physical disc and can resell it, totally legally and practically allowed. And the disc has anti-copy measures so it's really a transfer, not a copy.