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The state of things here is that Unreal Engine 1 may be open sourced one day but would need cleaning up first. And they just never got around doing it: https:/
by Ralfp 2y ago
The state of things here is that Unreal Engine 1 may be open sourced one day but would need cleaning up first. And they just never got around doing it:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6 https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6
- tempaccount420 2y agoWhy clean up first? Could be devs pushing back because they're ashamed (unnecessarily) of their code?
- cibyr 2y agoWe saw with Winamp how badly it can go (lots of license violations on vendored dependencies): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-...
- account42 2y agoCleaning up in this context means figuring out what parts of the code they actually own and removing/replacing the parts they don't.