To take a charitable interpretation of what he means; I think he means the equivalent in terms of content, without straight-up violating the actual copyright. IE Tamriel Rebuilt with all the glitz and glamour of the later games.AnyOldName3 wrote: ↑19 Aug 2021, 20:52 We're not going to be able to do anything about providing creation club content or DLC for free. We're creating a from-scratch replacement for the engine (which copyright lets us do) not the content that engine consumes.
On a more relevant note, I really like to remind people whenever OpenMW comes up that once OpenMW 1.0 is here, the march on to support later games will be far, FAR quicker. The amount of shared functionality and groundwork between the Bethesda open world games far outweighs their differences. Most of the major changes would likely be with regards to interpreting newer file formats, optimizations, and getting newer bolted-on tech to work. Though, many of these features are being implemented into OpenMW for support of mods...so who knows how much work would be necessary post-1.0
As it stands though, we're really not as close as we might think to 1.0.