Balls, I was waiting for the new patch before I started my playthrough
Seems like the devs actually might have made some decent money on this project and somebody has decided to go fishing for some of their $$$.
God I hate this legalese bullcrap. What makes it worse is that I am very aware that my hate of it changes abosolutely nothing. Grrr.
This is the first thing I thought of. Most likely scenario. Other party involved didn't care until they saw some dollar figures, and THEN they cared!
On a seemingly unrelated note, being a mildly paranoid person I am, I'll download the BG remake for NWN2 right now.
I sense that the "complex legal issues" could escalate to other BG/D&D remakes or fan-projects.
Atari (at least Atari's logo is there) I think it is still sells BG here in Germany in a package ( an "Anthology"):
http://www.amazon.de/NAMCO-BANDAI-P...&qid=1371734917&sr=8-2&keywords=baldur's+gate
Note the publisher there : Namco Bandai.
I assume that Namco Bandai might have "taken over" from there on. However.