Classic Shooters Heretic and Hexen Released Under GPL

phanboy_iv writes "Fans of both of the Raven classics, Heretic and Hexen, have been trying for almost a decade to convince Raven Software to release engine source code for the games under the GPL, much like the DOOM engine on which both of them are based. Well, they finally did it! Source code is available at Sourceforge. Both of these games have had the source available for a while, but under a restrictive license that hindered ports and modifications. Now, thanks to dedicated fans, that's no longer a problem."

Comments

Re:just the source?

[ILuvRamen]

I was gonna say pretty much the same thing. Open sourcing the engine is kinda pointless unless they also give us an already working copy of all the sound files and skins and stuff. I mean yeah someone could probably rip them from the game data but that'll take a long time. And you probably could have just done that already and stuck them in a better engine, although it would be noticeably different.