Dark Reign 2 Goes Open Source

An anonymous reader writes "One of Activision's last RTS games, Dark Reign 2, has gone open source under the LGPL. Although the release by a former Pandemic Studios employee was some time ago, it had happened relatively silently. With the source code now available, it is hoped that online play that isn't dependent on WON servers will be implemented and possibly ports to other platforms."

Code AND Assets

[Rik Sweeney]

From the looks of things the assets are included. There's a 790MB rar file here

http://code.google.com/p/darkreign2/source/browse/#svn%2Ffull_game [google.com]

Illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

Contains files like source/graphics/IMESHUtil.cpp which state: /*
  * IMESHUtil.cpp
  *
  * INTEL CORPORATION PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
  * This software is supplied under the terms of a license agreement or
  * nondisclosure agreement with Intel Corporation and may not be copied
  * or disclosed except in accordance with the terms of that agreement.
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1998 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  *
  * PURPOSE:
  *
  * This file contains the implementation for the IMESH Utility
  * functions that manage IMESH memory, read and writing of IMESHes, etc.
  *
  *
  */

So it should not be on Google Code

Legal issues ahoy!

[Desler]

Hacker News user gets confirmation from repo owner that this was a leak not an official open sourcing. [ycombinator.com] Slashdot editors need to update the story to warn people.