News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”. Parent comment

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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]