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Quake 2 Source Code Released Under The GPL

Posted by chrisd on from the thanks-again-john dept.

Masem (and many others) writes: "The source code for Quake 2 is now available until the GPL license. The .plan file for John Carmack has the details." The Id Software site is of course slammed with demand for the code. Hopefully other mirrors will be available.

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  1. Thanks by John+Carmack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks for the kind comments, it helps me brace a bit for some of the really vile hate mail that is already starting to come in from the people worried about cheating.

    Bill Heineman is preparing the mac source code for Q2 for a release.

    We will see about getting the 3.21 changes we missed into an updated release.

    I am also happy to say that another old game's code will be released under the GPL soon. We can always hope that it becomes a trend...

    John Carmack