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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by maccard on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:53PM (#36552911)
That's not the same thing - one is redistributing the API (which is what we're talking about here) and the other is implementing an API.
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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by orra on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:15PM (#36562857)
To be clear we are talking about releasing code which calls into an API. Agreed you can't redistribute somebody else's SDK without permission.
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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by maccard on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:00PM (#36579921)
To use bullet physics as a hypothetical example, if my game was the hello world example [0], I would expect that practically that entire file would be un-distributable.

[0] https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/blob/master/example...

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