“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”

Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by terramex on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:57AM (#27747886)

I disagree with "have to publish source on anything it touches" . Electronic Arts used WebKit in multiple games and they only had to share changes they did to it, not the source codes for all their games.

As a side effect they had to publish their incomplete implementation of STL that was adopted by multiple other studios as it was so much faster and less memory fragmenting than alternatives.

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by maximilianburke on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:20AM (#27749733)

WebKit is LGPL though, not GPL, and it was built as a specially maintained dynamic library specifically to avoid having to publish the source code for the whole game.

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by account42 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:21AM (#27749740)

Webkit is LGPL, not GPL - not having to share linked code is exactly the main difference between these licenses.

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by x4e on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:30AM (#27749863)

WebKit is a mixture of LGPL and BSD, not pure GPL.

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