Does anyone know the legal status of "DOOM-IT?"

[Gregory Stephens]

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DOOM-IT

I really liked this frontend when I first played the Master Levels for it's time and I can't find any information on it's author Chris Badger. I know there's probably superior DOS frontends out there but I'd love to see if we could get this open sourced or something for modern WAD packs and stuff for us DOS and vanilla enthusiasts and the likes.

[DooM Bear]

I don’t want to give you a specific answer as simple answer is I don’t know :-P

 

That said, a lot of times the IP is held by either the author (Chris) or, I’d think more likely, the company that hired him to do the work / his employer at the time he created it (I.e. Id software).

 

Hope that helps somewhat!

[Doomkid]

I'm under the impression that it's free of charge, however I don't know it's exact legal status. Would be cool to see it open sourced or even just reverse engineered. I know the easiest way to play MasterLevels these days is to use an auto-compiler that puts them all into one wad, but much more obscure old tools have been worked on over the years, so maybe something will come of this.

[Quasar]

It was a shareware application back in the day; doesn't seem that ever changed as it became out of date. Unfortunate. Might be hard to get ahold of the author by now.