Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code

Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by LegionMammal978 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:31PM (#43094674)

b) can get dicey, depending on how hard the 3rd party in question wants to defend their copyrights. Google v. Oracle was resolved on the basis of being transformative, not on the basis of class and function declarations being too insignificant to copyright. So if you can't even keep the 3rd-party headers, you're left with a bunch of function calls that you have to piece together the meaning of.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by EMIRELADERO on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:36PM (#43094741)

You could just strip out all mentions of the 3rd party component on the codebase. Let the community figure out how to plug in a replacement.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by nemothekid on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:01PM (#43095077)

>Let the community figure out how to plug in a replacement.

Far more likely the community kicks up a huge stink about how Valve released a crippled engine.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by maccard on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:24AM (#43100263)

Like this exact thread where they release the game and the top comment is "but the engine isn't available".

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by account42 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:33AM (#43104046)

This is just concern trolling now. Game source code releases are often not 100% complete due to parts that coulen't be released.

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