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Seriously, this +100000000%. King giving this much to the community with such a tiny clause that most people won't mind (you can't take their engine, make a cha
by Operyl 6y ago
Seriously, this +100000000%. King giving this much to the community with such a tiny clause that most people won't mind (you can't take their engine, make a change, and resell it) is so pedantic that I feel like there will be really nobody who is seriously going to use the project who will care. I'm super excited as a developer, I can work to get some features I want in here now!
- SXX 6y agoEpic Games also giving a lot to the community and now only charge projects after $1,000,000 in profits. Yet they don't try to sell their EULA as "almost OSS license".
- Operyl 6y agoAnd I appreciate them for the work they've done too! But that's not an exact one-to-one here. There's no point in attacking a project that has an honest desire to give to the community like this post has been doing.
- SXX 6y agoSo how exactly this is not one-to-one if we don't care about terms here? 95% of game developers will never gonna make $1M from their pet project so it's no different whatever engine code is licensed under EULA or proprietary license with different name.
- Operyl 6y agoBecause the engine is proprietary in Epic land, and it's not here. Here I can make any changes I want and still release the engine as a fork. I can't sell that fork. In the case of the Epic engine, you're not allowed to fork it at all.