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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. I think those two games by Psyborgue · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are Quake 3 based, if I remember correctly, which is already open-source. What is the point of this, especially since it doesn't look like they've released the game assets?

  2. How does licensing work on this? by asylumx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does releasing this code to OSS interact with trademark law from Lucas (or Disney now, I guess)? If I go fork this now open-source software, am I allowed to release a new version with any affiliation to Star Wars or does it fall on my shoulders to go in and remove anything that might be protected IP?