dan writes "It seems Multi Theft Auto (MTA) has finally become open source. For those of you who are unaware, Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas — has become open-source after over four years of closed source development.
As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early days of GTAIII, this hit me by surprise somewhat. Some of the interesting parts of the post:
"Today we are marking a new milestone in the history of Multi Theft Auto. After over 11000 revisions since 2004, contributions by over 16 world-wide developers, 1554 files and well over 550.000 lines of mostly C/C++ code, we have made the decision to re-launch Multi Theft Auto as an open-source project."
"By open sourcing our project, we are encouraging anyone who is willing to participate in this project, to participate. For that reason, we are not "just" offering our source code: we have also opened our bug tracker and will be offering public access to our nightly build system that will be compiling a build every day (and has been long used for testing purposes). This way, any developer will be able to run the latest revisions, file bugs or submit patches."
This is particularly exciting given that the released source is based upon the MTA Blue core, which in theory can be applied to any single player game. The source will no doubt be useful and provide foundations for future projects and the progression of the mod itself.
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