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by erkok 97 days ago
Yes, the assets are property of a defunct company, so yeah, if you want to do it properly, I wouldn't advise distributing it with their assets, unless you can track them down and license the IP.

This project was mainly developed for Helbreath community as a modernisation project, a community which has ran private servers (illegally) as long as licensed servers have existed. The original developer never seemed to care for illegal use of their IP, even when they were in business. I'm aware of 2 cease and desist requests being sent to HB Olympia (commercial) and HB Nemesis (Steam listed) private servers and they are still both operating. Either they managed to license the IP, which I'm not aware of, or the request came from HB Korea server, which is the only licensed server left, and as a licensee they probably don't have the rights to the actual IP, hence the requests were ignored. I'm just speculating here. I'm not trying to encourage anyone here to do the same, just trying to explain the situation around the IP.