Yar, and the best part is they know the ins and outs which means they can freely create new content for it. If we're going to model our project on something, that is definitely our best bet.
As for licensing, because when you bought the CD's you bought the rights to basically use anything on them, they are able to use a lot of that content that was on the disc, some of which never even made it into the actual game.
Just trying to put some hope out there for people, and to quash the goons saying that this isn't possible for some reason or another.
Also thanks Dumke I will give it a look :D