britzl

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by britzl 6y ago
Exactly. The license used for Defold ( https://defold.com/license/ ) says: * You are free to commercialise any software created using Defold * You are free to commercialise any plugin, extension or tool created for use w
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by britzl 6y ago
Not true. I went over the entire website and searched for "open source" and changed the wording. I did not add a bunch of extra "free and open" just for fun.
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by britzl 6y ago
Defold is Free, meaning that it doesn't cost anything to use and you don't have to pay any royalties. Defold is Open, meaning that it is possible to modify and extend. It is actually possible to extend the engine even without sour
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by britzl 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Defold is a free (doesn't cost anything) and open (you can extend and modify it) game engine with a permissive license and we invite the
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by britzl 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Defold is a free and open game engine with a permissive license and we invite the community to contribute on GitHub. Please see this statemen
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by britzl 6y ago
It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Defold is a free and open game engine with a permissive license and we invite the community to contribute on GitHub. Please see this statement: https://twitte
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by britzl 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Please see this statement: https://twitter.com/defold/status/1262744466311360517
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by britzl 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Please see this statement: https://twitter.com/defold/status/1262744466311360517
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by britzl 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. It was never our intention to step on any toes or misrepresent Defold. Please see this statement: https://twitter.com/defold/status/1262744466311360517
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by britzl 6y ago
We are humbled by the mostly positive reactions to the news we shared earlier today but also sorry for misrepresenting the license under which we make the source code available. Defold is a free and open game engine with a permissive licens
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by britzl 6y ago
The question if Defold will be open sourced is one of the most common questions asked since Defold was launched in 2016. By open sourcing Defold and handing it to the Defold Foundation we build trust with the community. It guarantees that D
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by britzl 6y ago
Yes, you can sell your games! The license page is very clear on this: https://defold.com/license/ * You are free to commercialise any software created using Defold * You are free to commercialise any plugin, extension
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by britzl 6y ago
The license page ( https://defold.com/license/ ) says "derived from the popular and permissive Apache 2.0 license". It never say that it is the Apache 2.0 license. It then goes on to show the difference very cl
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by britzl 6y ago
I will not debate you on that one. According to the Open Source Definition ( https://opensource.org/osd ) Defold is only 90% open source. It's a lot better than the 0% it was yesterday.
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by britzl 6y ago
True, Defold is only 90% open source according to that definition, but that is definitely a lot better than the 0% it was yesterday.
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by britzl 7y ago
It is a bit different than many other engines, and it is not for everyone, but once you shift your mindset from large object oriented structures and start thinking about the relationship between your game logic and data in a way that works
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by britzl 7y ago
I've been with the Defold team since before the public launch, but I'm not going to debate you over this :-) As you say, things have changed and we have worked hard since the launch three years ago to show our community of develop
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by britzl 7y ago
(I'm the Defold product owner) There's not a shred of truth in the above statement. We offered an OPT-IN analytics services that provided you, the developer, with install and retention numbers for your game. No one at King or in t