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Quake 3 engine source to be released under the GPL, "within the week"

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Trasher

Posted: Aug 13 2005, 03:30 AM

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In his QuakeCon 2005 keynote, John Carmack revealed that after some delays id is finally ready to release the complete Quake III source code for use under the terms of the GPL. He could not give an exact date, but was confident that this would occur "within a week". Currently id is making sure everything is licensed correctly and everything builds, and as soon as that is complete the whole package will be set free.

Carmack also noted that he is looking forward to some day seeing somebody ship a commercial title, probably a budget game, under the GPL. He'd like, for example, someone use the Quake III source to complete their own shooter and ship it with the full source code included on the CD. Carmack expressed frustration with people who get overly protective about code that is largely built on the work of someone else.

What this means is that the entire back-engine of the Quake 3 game will be open for people to tweak, enhance, and make their own games with under the GPL. If you want a good example of what can be done, check out Tenebrae, which is basically the original, blocky Quake engine with bumpmapping, a Doom3-esque lighting engine, and other graphical enhancements.

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Posted: Aug 13 2005, 05:23 AM

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Oh, this will lead to some awesomely cool things.

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Techokami	Posted: Aug 13 2005, 01:02 PM
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Trasher

Posted: Aug 13 2005, 09:27 PM

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QUOTE (Quicky @ Aug 14 2005, 05:20 AM)

wasn't some of it released already?

Not that I know of. Carmack WAS going to release the Q3 code last christmas but decided to give his last few licensees a chance to finish up their stuff.

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Posted: Aug 13 2005, 10:45 PM

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QUOTE (Trasher @ Aug 13 2005, 10:27 PM)

Not that I know of. Carmack WAS going to release the Q3 code last christmas but decided to give his last few licensees a chance to finish up their stuff.

Ah well, always better to have it late than never.