Id Release of Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github under GPL-2
Id Release of Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github under GPL-2
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This is amazing! Hey Nintendo…
Yeah, Nintendo here? What do you need, a lawsuit?
Nintendo would see the sky fall down before they would do something like this, because unlike idSoftware, who release good work, make their money, and move on, Nintendo would re-release the same stuff 5 times, except it's always more expensive the next time
It would literally not hurt them to open source anything <= 3DS now after the eshop closure. The act of doing that and everything that would come of it (e.g. rom hacks) would actually be a pretty good PR move imo and maybe they'd even find new developers, acquainted with their code, that could be hired by them so they have developers that actually know how to develop good and optimized games.
One can sadly only dream.
It would literally not hurt them to open source anything <= 3DS
The thing is that they want to continue to milk those classic titles (see for example the Chrono Trigger Android port)
Note that this is only the game code that allows people to develop mods, and not engine code that allows people to do ports. The re-release engine code is still proprietary.
They did the same with Quake 1 re-release game code
good shit
if Quake II is under GPL-2.0...
doesn't it mean that Quake II has a good to high potential to be supported on Linux?Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that's why they kept it open.
Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
never knew till today and also that's pretty cool!
The license doesn’t really matter, unless you mean it should be included in the kernel. If it was another permissive license, you could also port it to Linux. I have no clue if it’s actually possible to port it to Linux natively, but I would guess that you can
no clue if it’s actually possible to port it to Linux natively
its's open source, you can, now how easily...
Someone needs to make quake ii run doom just to prove a point
When Quake 3?
Are you looking for this?
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