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UE4 isn’t open source. You get source access with the license but it’s quite restrictive on what you can actually do with it. If you tried to setup a competing
by meheleventyone 9y ago
UE4 isn’t open source. You get source access with the license but it’s quite restrictive on what you can actually do with it. If you tried to setup a competing engine based on a fork of it you would quickly find yourself being sued.
Godot would be an example of an open source game engine.
- vtange 9y agoThanks for the clarification. I believe UE4 is still a good example of how the PR-bias towards anything 'open-source'. All it took was a few headlines with "Unreal" and "open-source" and I naturally grouped it with the likes of Blender and Godot.
- meheleventyone 9y agoRight but all that means is that Epic were able to exploit a lack of understanding. Not really that noble or exceptional. There is a PR bias towards open source because it’s seen as a selfless act to provide free software. Conflating that with commercial software such as UE4 actually takes away from that since it dupes the unwary.
- skellera 9y agoAs you can see what happened to Silicon Knights. https://www.engadget.com/amp/2012/11/09/silicon-knights-v-epic-games-judgment/ https://www.engadget.com/amp/2012/11/09/silicon-knights-v-ep...