Reviving Old X Code
Looking at bug – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=974011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=974011</a> – there is all this talk about copyright of the xmille and mille computer programs, I don&#x27;t see any discussion of the question of the copyright of the underlying card game.<p>Mille Bornes was invented by Arthur Dujardin (using pen name Edmond Dujardin), illustrated by Joseph Le Callennec, and first released in 1954 [0]. Dujardin died in 1964 [1], so using EU copyright term of author&#x27;s life + 70 years, its copyright would expire in 2034. Le Callennec died in 1988, so copyright on the original illustrations would expire in 2058. (I don&#x27;t know how dependent the illustrations in the computer game are on the original.)<p>I&#x27;m not sure who currently owns the copyrights to the original card game. But Dujardin founded the Dujardin company which still sells Mille Bornes [3] so I would assume they still do. Since 2007, the Dujardin company has been owned by the French TV network TF1 [4].<p>The copyright owners to the card game have probably never heard of this obscure non-commercial computer game. Who knows if they&#x27;d react to it indulgently or not.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mille_Bornes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mille_Bornes</a> but actually the French article has a lot more information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1000_bornes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1000_bornes</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Edmond_Dujardin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Edmond_Dujardin</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joseph_Le_Callennec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joseph_Le_Callennec</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeuxdujardin.fr&#x2F;produit&#x2F;milles-bornes-pegboardable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeuxdujardin.fr&#x2F;produit&#x2F;milles-bornes-pegboardab...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dujardin_(éditeur)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dujardin_(éditeur)</a>