Valve Updates On Half-Life 2 Code Leak

Posted by simoniker on Friday October 3, 2003 @06:47PM from the fear-for-your-hax0r-lives dept.

Thanks to ShackNews for their updated report from Valve boss Gabe Newell regarding Thursday's leak of the Half-Life 2 source code. He says: "We're still finding machines internally that have been compromised" in relation to the "infiltration of our network" that led to the code leak, and warns that other developers may also be in danger: "There's anecdotal evidence that other game developers have been targeted by whoever attacked us." But he ends with a hopeful appeal to those who've been helping Valve hunt down the culprits online: "I've been fielding calls from the mainstream non-games, non-technical press all day. Hopefully they will get to report shortly what a mistake it is to piss off a whole bunch of gamers and get them hunting you around the Internet."

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Re:GPL found? by Wonko42 · 2003-10-03 19:14 · Score: 4, Informative

From what I've read, there was apparently an initial knee-jerk reaction by some Slashdot dorks claiming that there was GPLed code in there, but a followup post by someone who wasn't retarded pointed out that the code in question was licensed under the LGPL, which allows for such uses.
Re:Hate to say it by NSash · 2003-10-03 19:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Some people have said that Valve has included GPLed code in the Half Life 2 code. Dunno as to whether this is true, but I'd like to point out that while this is technically not kosher, I suspect that a lot of places do it -- as long as it's out by release time, I very much doubt that anyone will complain.
They're talking about the Havok physics engine. Two things:
1. It's LGPL, not GPL
2. Valve is using the Havok physics engine under a commercial license, so it's legit.