RE: [LUG] GLUG - free and non-free

[Matt Lee <mattl@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 13:28, Martin Howitt wrote:

> Take games for example. There are plenty of (relatively small) GPL games out
> there, but to bring this conversation back to where we started, there are
> AFAIK no GPL games on the scale of Doom, because the resources and
> management required to bring a game of that level of complexity out cost a
> lot of money which couldn't be recouped if a GPL licence was used.

Actually, Doom's source code and Quake's source code, are released under
the GPL now. Quakeforge is an example of a game that has been released
since, based on the GPL sources :)

> (I hope to be corrected of course, if anyone has an example I'll be the
> first to head to the ftp mirrors!)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/quake/

matt


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