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I wonder what the laws are on discontinued software. Are licencing issued still enforced? Ie if I need 20 more seats of LS can I just use my one copy on all of the machines? Hmmmm, a questions for Autodesk.
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Well, a clue would be that just a few weeks ago Autodesk came out with the position that AutoCad users could NOT legally sell/transfer ACAD on ebay. Their point is that when you buy autocad it is bonded to you and you alone. I don't recall any details of the 3.2 licence when I upgraded. That was the only version under Autodesk. As I've said before, Autodesk sees their customes as raw meat, nothing more.
Licence terms would no doubt be in force. Why would either party be released from the licencing agreement simply because one decided to change their future business plans? Check the EULA on LS v3.2
A few months ago I asked Rod Recker if he thought ADSK would ever sell Lightscape, since they obviously had no further plans for it. He said he did not know but did not rule it out either. He gave false hope to a fool. I have been prodding the president of another CAD company to offer to buy it. Funny, he didn't rule it out either. Gee, ya think? More likely these two are laughing their heads off at me.
Frankly I doubt Autodesk would sell it for any amount, because they bought it to kill by dismemberment. It would not be truely dead if they sold it to another company to continue to sell and develope it. Still, makes you wonder what the corpse would be worth, and who could be convinced to buy it. Let's see, if I got 1 million CG artist to kick in $1 each, would that do it?