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And that exception doesn't really apply anymore: I'm pretty sure the new Dooms have commercial middleware like anything else, and they're no longer open-sourcing them. They haven't even commercially licensed out the engine to anybody in forever.


To release Doom 3 as OSS, Carmack had to rewrite patent encumbered parts of the code.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/136614459887202305




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