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Just a thought I had: Godot is MIT and the project never had a contributor license agreement. W4 doesn't "own" the copyright anymore than anyone else. An invest
by hgs3 4y ago
Just a thought I had: Godot is MIT and the project never had a contributor license agreement. W4 doesn't "own" the copyright anymore than anyone else. An investor with enough capital could start their own W4 competitor, or even a closed source competitor, based on Godot at any time.
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- hresvelgr 4y agoAriel Manzur, the other significant co-author of Godot runs Lone Wolf Technology, a consultancy for helping studios with Godot, primarily porting to consoles. The common theme is they were both started by people who made the engine so I doubt a competitor would pop up without similar qualification.
- japhib 4y agoEven if they did, what would be the point? The appeal of Godot is that it's open source; if you just want a full-featured game engine, with a large, existing ecosystem around it to boot, just use Unity or Unreal.
- esperent 4y agoYes, that is how MIT (and similar) licensed open source work projects work. It's a feature, not a bug.