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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by _delirium on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:09AM (#27744729)
As he says in the linked tweet: the major value the GPL contributed is the code being open-sourced in the first place, since his co-copyright-holders would never have agreed to license it BSD. The alternative to the GPL, in this case, was "(c) All Rights Reserved", which is still how most other old games are licensed.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by bifrost on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:14AM (#27744762)
So valuing that his co-holders didn't want to opensource is good for the open source community? That seems backwards.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by 3np on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:16AM (#27745108)
Que? They were obviously fine with open-sourcing, just not under BSD license.
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