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by baud147258 1551 days ago
I would think that OpenRA can use the Telsa coils (and other copyrighted elements) because it's a mod for Command & Conquer, which wouldn't be transferable to another project unrelated to C&C
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It's not a mod, but as far as I know they simply do not distribute the sprites and content themselves.
it's not a mod, but regarding the assets owned by EA, it's using the license granted by the 'C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines' [0], so that's why I used that word

[0]https://www.openra.net/download/

Fair enough
You dont need a copy to Play openra
You don’t. I just installed it yesterday on a new Linux laptop. What’s interesting about openra is you can run multiple copies at the same time on the same machine to play against yourself for fun
I know, but the files are still not distributed by Open RA, they are downloaded during the installation from the C&C distributor.