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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by mannerheim on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:35AM (#27746016)
If you read between the lines, this is the very reason why Id released the source code as GPL instead of BSD: They didn't want their competitors to take their engine, make proprietary improvements, and deprive Id of revenue using their own work.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:41AM (#27749267)
They never open-sourced any of their engines until after they had published a game with the next iteration of their engine.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by mannerheim on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:20PM (#27755588)
Sure, but that just means they had multiple methods of ensuring they had created a suitable moat against competitors, the GPL being just one of them.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by thrower123 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:40AM (#27747674)
They didn't release any of this code as open-source until they'd wrung every dime of engine licensing out of it and it had been completely obsoleted.

It's free-as-in-couch software.

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