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Re:Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unr... by Ralfp on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @06:02AM (#42192731)
The state of things here is that Unreal Engine 1 may be open sourced one day but would need cleaning up first. And they just never got around doing it:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6

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Re:Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unr... by tempaccount420 on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @10:41AM (#42194881)
Why clean up first? Could be devs pushing back because they're ashamed (unnecessarily) of their code?
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Re:Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unr... by cibyr on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @06:55PM (#42199466)
We saw with Winamp how badly it can go (lots of license violations on vendored dependencies):

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-...

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Re:Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unr... by account42 on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:25AM (#42202825)
Cleaning up in this context means figuring out what parts of the code they actually own and removing/replacing the parts they don't.
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