On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Michael Menegakis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <[email protected]> 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.
AFAIK they're not selling engines anymore, their engines are only used internally at Zenimax, at least from id tech 5 on. Also, as ryan already said, the engines that are opensourced don't make them much money anymore anyway, so their business model wouldn't be affected by putting id tech 3 (or older) source under BSD license. Yeah sure, Urban Terror got a Q3 license, but I don't think it was expensive (or they couldn't have afforded it). _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
