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Dark Reign 2 Goes Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the shhhh-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of Activision's last RTS games, Dark Reign 2, has gone open source under the LGPL. Although the release by a former Pandemic Studios employee was some time ago, it had happened relatively silently. With the source code now available, it is hoped that online play that isn't dependent on WON servers will be implemented and possibly ports to other platforms."

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  1. Re:Illegal by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Copyright (c) 1998"

    In a just world, that would be fair game by now.

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    For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
  2. Re:Be careful by jonwil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Judging by the amount of 3rd party code (a chunk of which I know for sure isn't open source in any way shape or form), I have strong doubts that this is legitimate.
    My bet is that someone will get in trouble for posting this code, the code will be removed (from Google code and probably also from github and elsewhere that it might be uploaded to)

    There is NO WAY that anyone connected with this would ever get permission to post the contents of e.g. 3rdparty\bink or 3rdparty\mss