Two Stop Bits | I knew Quake and later released games were under the GPL, somehow I forgot that ...

Screwtapello 308 days ago | parent

I knew Quake and later released games were under the GPL, somehow I forgot that DOOM was under a custom licence until now. Good on you, Bethesda!

pcvarmint 308 days ago
Boom and MBF were relicensed under GPL circa 1997.
id Doom -> Linux Doom -> DosDoom -> Boom -> MBF -> Eternity [0]
0. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/James_Haley_(Quasar)
- Screwtapello 307 days ago
  According to the DOOM wiki:
  > The Doom source code was released December 23, 1997, initially under a not-for-profit license. Later, permission was granted by John Carmack to re-release the source code under the GNU General Public License on October 3, 1999, albeit only via an email conversation.
  And then about 24 years later, the licence file was updated in the git repo. :)