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Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL

Posted by timothy on from the play-you-will dept.

hypnosec writes "Activision and Raven Software game studios have open sourced a couple of their games so that people can play as well learn from the code. The gaming companies have released the source code of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast through SourceForge."

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  1. It'd be like releasing DuckTales under GPL by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    especially since it doesn't look like they've released the game assets?

    Like DuckTales, Star Wars is a Disney franchise, and Disney is famous for sponsoring the Copyright Term Extension Act. I can't foresee what would cause Disney to change its policies to allow the release of anything it owns under a license for free cultural works.

  2. Re:Linux port. by Svartalf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Depends on how fast I can get the Steam releases of the games I'm responsible for the Linux version of out the door- and if Ryan can beat me to the punch... >:-D

    --
    I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
  3. Re:Version control: You're doing it wrong! by rbowen · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been talking with the developer in question this morning, and he'll be putting the code into Git this evening or this weekend, as he has time.

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    Apache guy, Open Source enthusiast, runner
  4. Re:List of 'fuck' in Jedi Academy by safetyinnumbers · · Score: 5, Informative

    \code\game\q_math.cpp(545): i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?

    That''s part of the Quake III fast inverse square root.

  5. Please add to summary by Jim+Hall · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hi. Can you add that note to the article summary? That should head off a lot of comments.