http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/06/hexen-heretic-source-codes-released-under-gpl/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:15:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/06/hexen-heretic-source-codes-released-under-gpl/comment-page-1/#comment-935046 James Haley Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:51:34 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=40180#comment-935046 Actually, and this is just nitpicking really, the source to these games was released back in 1999, but under an Activision "General Product EULA," like the kind you'd find in one of their commercial binary releases. This made it really difficult to make any good use of it. After almost a decade of just trying to get the attention of the right people, we members of the online "Doom community" finally saw this accomplished (I was the one that spear-headed the effort, but I had the help of many thousands of other people, including notably John Romero from id and Chris Rhinehart from Human Head Studios, who was one of the games' original programmers). Actually, and this is just nitpicking really, the source to these games was released back in 1999, but under an Activision “General Product EULA,” like the kind you’d find in one of their commercial binary releases. This made it really difficult to make any good use of it. After almost a decade of just trying to get the attention of the right people, we members of the online “Doom community” finally saw this accomplished (I was the one that spear-headed the effort, but I had the help of many thousands of other people, including notably John Romero from id and Chris Rhinehart from Human Head Studios, who was one of the games’ original programmers).

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