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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Johnpp on November 13, 2007, 06:27:20 am

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Johnpp on November 13, 2007, 06:27:20 am

Did Tremulous legally purchase the Q3 engine source code license? 'Someone' asked me on the FileFront forums, and I had to tell her I didn't know yet.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Survivor on November 13, 2007, 06:31:31 am

Source has been released under gpl iirc, assets have not.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Johnpp on November 13, 2007, 06:37:13 am

Hmm...ermm, I don't really know what I'm talking about, so I'll just link you to the post, and you can reply from there: http://forums.filefront.com/filefront-com-help-center/337993-tremulous-filefront-network-site.html

It's worth signing up, anyway.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: OverFlow on November 13, 2007, 06:48:02 am

Basically, the company that made Q3 (id) said to everyone, "you can now use the Q3 engine for free, here's the code for it."  ... basically.

But none of the art.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Johnpp on November 13, 2007, 06:52:49 am

Hmm, ok, thanks. I'll tell her, and maybe we can get a Tremfiles.filefront.com up, if anyone else is interested.

Do you have a link to the document where id said that? Just for some more proof.

(delete my post below)

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Undeference on November 13, 2007, 07:09:27 am

Quote

If you're looking for the most "bang for your buck" - congratulations, your search is over! idTech3 is available through the same GPL (free) and non-GPL ($10,000) options.

http://www.idsoftware.com/business/idtech3/

You can edit your posts by the way.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: fmart on November 13, 2007, 08:00:37 am

I think not devs pay for anything
they use free version I beleive it may have some mising featuers

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Kaleo on November 14, 2007, 09:26:03 am

Id Techs 1, 2 and 3 are all open source now, cuz Carmack loves us...

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Taiyo.uk on November 14, 2007, 06:19:39 pm

Nah, the devs spent $3,899 of the donations on Q3 licensing and patent agreements. The whole GPL thing is a cover-up.

Title: Did Tremulous purchase the Q3 engine license?
Post by: Odin on November 14, 2007, 07:03:49 pm

yes microsoft was offering coupons at the time