• Potatisen@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 days ago

    GPL3 details in case you’re wondering

    1. Anyone can copy, modify and distribute this software.
    2. You have to include the license and copyright notice with each and every distribution.
    3. You can use this software privately.
    4. You can use this software for commercial purposes.
    5. If you dare build your business solely from this code, you risk open-sourcing the whole code base.
    6. If you modify it, you have to indicate changes made to the code.
    7. Any modifications of this code base MUST be distributed with the same license, GPLv3.
    8. This software is provided without warranty.
    9. The software author or license can not be held liable for any damages inflicted by the software.
    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Good license. If you want to mod the game, your code will need to be open source (in theory), so there could end up being open source modding communities around them.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    Whilst I’m pretty excited about this in general, it’s got me even more excited that a positive reception of this might spur EA on to actually do some more good, and release the sources for games from other defunct studios they’re doing nothing with like Bullfrog

    I’d love for the community to give games like theme hospital, dungeon keeper and populous a lick of paint

    Maybe some of the old weirder maxis games too, like SimAnt & SimCopter