Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: scaineI find it a bit upsetting that some of the opening comments to this news are negative. It's like someone offering you a free apple pie and turning your nose up and saying you prefer pears. Can we not just celebrate the awesome work CellarDoor and Ethan Lee put into this with a bit of gratitude? That it might help future developers learn, not to mention the modding potential?

I think this is because it feels like a downgrade compared to most game source code releases in the 2000s (where the GPL was typically used, or sometimes permissive licenses). It's much less common to see games have their source code released nowadays, let alone under OSI-approved open source licenses.

These custom licenses can also hinder the game's modding potential due to their terms, e.g. for source ports that are intended to replace the original executable.

These days, when I see a game's source code announcement, I basically assume it's under a proprietary license now :(
Descent 3 is the latest exception I can think of right now.

Thank you so much for explicating that, I've observed this trend too, it's almost as if proper F/LOSS isn't cool anymore or is viewed as 'too extreme' or 'idealistic' now, so projects w/ restrictively licensed proprietary public code are settled for. I just really wish people would quit settling for less than their full freedom/liberty & rights as end-users (as are properly defined by the fsf's four essential freedoms & the OSI's Open Source Definition) being respected when – as you pointed out – we just had a golden age of fully F/LOSS, GPL'd source ports, but now we're backsliding. It honestly chafes at me to see people implying it's no big deal one, for example, can't create commercial derivative works using the engine, when if it wasn't for Doom allowing that we wouldn't have the brilliant Selaco today.

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Not F/LOSS. :/

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Whatever happened to 'separate the developer from the software'? Obnoxious.

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Very regrettable it is not F/LOSS.

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A disappointing rejection of end-user freedom/liberty.

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Nobody's in favour of these goofy, overbearing 'covenants' (as cultlike as it sounds).

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