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Remember the GPL only applies to the code you can make a great game with beautiful artwork and distribute the source code to anyone who wants it. Nobody playing
by nailer 1y ago
Remember the GPL only applies to the code you can make a great game with beautiful artwork and distribute the source code to anyone who wants it. Nobody playing the game will have much fun without the artwork.
- energywut 1y agoThat's literally the first sentence I wrote in my comment. ;)
- nailer 1y agoSorry, you're right. I somehow missed that. There's some indie boomer shooters using the Doom engine that are commercially licensed IIRC.
- nottorp 1y agoCarmack has a post from ages ago wondering why no one does that with the ID engines they open sourced, which were pretty current back then. He was talking about the quake (2?) source code dumps i think. Edit: ohh i found it: http://www.gamespy.com/articles/641/641662p6.html http://www.gamespy.com/articles/641/641662p6.html The GPL license will allow people to take the Quake 3 engine and even go so far as to release a commercial product with it - provided that the source code is published alongside. Nobody has done this with any of the Quake engine games yet, but he hopes to see it happen someday.