It's a very good day today. LBA finally on GOG /cheer. I was wondering if LBA2 is also gonna be on GOG soon? I had it many many years ago on CD but as I recall it had CD/COPY protection, so guess it's not DRM FREE. But I can recall having read an interview with the creator of LBA that both games were to be re-released as downloads. So hopefully GOG will put it on their fantastic site :-)

There won't be any copy protection. Not for LBA or LBA2. I can assure you that. Otherwise, the game would demand the CD if you wanted to play it. All the games here don't have any form of protection, you can distribute them as you like (but shouldn't, since that defeats the purpose of being DRM free).

They take out or bypass the DRM, be it CD-required or some other scheme. The main exception is when you need a key code for online play, and they'll give you a valid code for that after a game is purchased.

There are some exceptions to the no-DRM thing, but GOG does provide the means to get around the DRM check, such as the documentation that you need in order to look up something in a manual. For instance, Master of Orion has a "ship identification" check after you've played some certain number of turns. GOG provides the doc that lets you look up the proper ship ID.

There may be one or two titles floating around that still give a DRM-type problem for certain users (I've encountered one) but it seems to be the exception, not the rule.

Often times old games aren't able to recognize the difference between a CD image and a real disc. SC 2000 includes the disc as an image that automounts in dosbox.

Otherwise, there's usually a no-cd crackt hat can be applied.