Posted on 11/23/2011 6:29:18 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
The Doom 3 source-code -- based upon the id Tech 4 engine -- is now available as open-source software to the gaming community under the GNU GPL license.
Pushed onto GitHub is the Doom 3 source-code. This comes after John Carmack had to work-around Carmack's Reverse due to legal issues. The source drop is right in line with what we were expecting.
More details to come soon on the open-source drop of Doom 3, which will hopefully spark a new wave of more impressive free software games.
This is excellent news.
I kind of figured some of you freeper gamers would be in favor of this. :-)
I am so afraid to go there. It looks like a trap.
This isn’t the first game he’s released the source of. He’s an old school kinda guy, likes to see what others can do with his code and ideas.
Nothing to worry about - John K announced this was going to happen weeks ago. There was news about a week ago talking about a slight delay due to a patent issue.
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