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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?

    1. Re:I think those two games by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Access to Q3 engine modifications, tweaks and usage examples?

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    2. Re:I think those two games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't shit all over a nice gesture? I would love to see this become a regular thing, and maybe this is a test case to judge reactions for future action?

  2. 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.

  3. Version control: You're doing it wrong! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I applaud their use of a revision control system (git, in this case), perhaps someone should explain to them that uploading a single .zip file with all of the code in it somewhat defeats the point...

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    1. 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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  4. 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?

  5. 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

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  6. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  7. 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.