Doom 3 is under GPL now...

[Colin McGregor]

Small note, the first person shooter game Doom 3 has now been released
under the GPL : https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

The "catch" to all this is that the data files that define landscapes,
monsters, sounds, music and weapons have not been made available under
a public license. So, bad news for anyone wanting a free Doom 3, but
great news for anyone wanting an excellent platform for creating their
own games.

My own take on Doom 3 can be seen here :
ftp://ftp.linuxjournal.com/pub/tux/tux017.pdf . On bad days I've been
known to claim that I was paid to play video games... Truth of course
being that I got paid for writing an article, but before I could write
the article I had to do some SERIOUS research :-) . After some of the
12 hour research sessions I did find my hands twitching a little ...
:) .


Colin.
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