On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <iccu...@icculus.org> wrote: > >> sold one to Urban Terror). Making more problems with GPL3 might be in >> the same venue. > > I doubt it was malicious. While they're willing to sell someone an id Tech 3 > license, I don't imagine they even notice the revenue on their accounting > books (and for id Tech 3, I bet this costs more in annoyance than it makes > them in money). > > My belief is that the GPL releases were always John Carmack's thing, and I > don't think the ideals involved were ever understood by the rest of Id > Software, let alone Zenimax. > > But that's just my opinion.
Not malicious,business. Also, it's quite probably if not fully understood, at least accepted since a BSD release would completely destroy their business model of engine sales. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
