EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
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Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#2Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert
Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn
Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade
Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour
EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb
(Deleted Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmml4/)
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#3Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con... Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb (Deleted Reddi…
praying for Red Alert 2
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#4Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con... Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb (Deleted Reddi…
praying for Red Alert 2
Slightly odd (age wise) Generals got open sourced before RA2. I wonder why?
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#5EA, I've cursed your name since you smothered Westwood. But thank you for this.
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#6Nice! Now this piece of video game history can be better shared and preserved. Does this repo include the artistic assists, or does it include the code only?
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#7> To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game.
> This repository and its contents are licensed under the GPL v3 license, with additional terms applied. Please see LICENSE.md for details.
It does not sound open-source to me...
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#8> To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. > This repository and its contents are licensed under the GPL v3 license, with additional terms applied. Please see LICENSE.md for details. It does not sound open-source to me...
I think they just mean that for the game to work, you'll need art assets, etc. from the original game that aren't part of the code they open-sourced. I don't think it's a licensing restriction. (And even if it were, they released it under the GPLv3, which says "If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.", so you could just ignore it.)
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#9> To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. > This repository and its contents are licensed under the GPL v3 license, with additional terms applied. Please see LICENSE.md for details. It does not sound open-source to me...
The additional terms are under term 7 of the GPLv3, so -- assuming they're valid -- would still render this open-source.
Re: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
#10> To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. > This repository and its contents are licensed under the GPL v3 license, with additional terms applied. Please see LICENSE.md for details. It does not sound open-source to me...
It's the same model as the idTech GPL releases - the code is open source, the rest of the game is not. To legally play the original game or a modified version of it then you'll still need to buy it for the assets, but there's nothing stopping you from only taking the code and building a brand new game on it like various studios have done with idTech (e.g. Selaco and Wrath: Aeon of Ruin).