Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL 105
hypnosec writes "Activision and Raven Software game studios have open sourced a couple of their games so that people can play as well learn from the code. The gaming companies have released the source code of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast through SourceForge."
It'd be like releasing DuckTales under GPL (Score:4, Informative)
especially since it doesn't look like they've released the game assets?
Like DuckTales, Star Wars is a Disney franchise, and Disney is famous for sponsoring the Copyright Term Extension Act. I can't foresee what would cause Disney to change its policies to allow the release of anything it owns under a license for free cultural works [freedomdefined.org].
Re:Linux port. (Score:4, Informative)
Depends on how fast I can get the Steam releases of the games I'm responsible for the Linux version of out the door- and if Ryan can beat me to the punch... >:-D
Re:Version control: You're doing it wrong! (Score:5, Informative)
I've been talking with the developer in question this morning, and he'll be putting the code into Git this evening or this weekend, as he has time.
Re:List of 'fuck' in Jedi Academy (Score:5, Informative)
\code\game\q_math.cpp(545): i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
That''s part of the Quake III fast inverse square root [wikipedia.org].
Please add to summary (Score:2, Informative)
Hi. Can you add that note to the article summary? That should head off a lot of comments.