Good argument and that is true, it is a derivative work and they don't own it just because they translated it and some really are very uptight about ownership of something they really don't. I mean I get the attachment given the hours involved but you really need to have a certain expectation going into it too.

By the way which network (irc) were you on and what channel in the 90s? I was in the efnet/#emu for a time, part of it as an op too. Those were fun days when all that development was going on.