I’m assuming this is more about art assets. Art is not code and you shouldn’t expect them for free. It’s not a catch.
Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 weeks ago
To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game
Was expecting a catch. Still good for modding I guess
Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Jeffool@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Which, in the immediate future, makes me wonder less about the things that are going to be done in code, and more about the creation of a new, free, visual and audio resources that make this work. That seems like quite a noble pursuit.
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Correct. The license (at least, the one I read for Red Alert) is GPLv3 with some additional stuff. The additional stuff is mostly about not using EA trademarks in your version or showing any connection to EA itself. So it appears that a clean room asset swap would be allowed as long as it includes the title screen.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
The entire series is on sale on Steam right now for $6 if that helps.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Sorry, that was the wrong link.
Ilgaz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
If you dig some experienced players comments who bought the “remastered” stuff, they are complaining that they “re-mastered” the exact same bugs that seriously annoyed the players too. They didn’t fix the bugs. With the power of OSS, every bug can be fixed.
Artyom@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
This is a pretty standard affair for open sourced games.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Open source does not mean that the intellectual property is free. There’s a lot of good that comes from this, and it’s not like those games are expensive.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Though do also note that of these four, TD and RA1 were already made freeware years ago.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 weeks ago
I realize. Intellectual property is an icky concept IMO but I know not everyone agrees
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Intellectual property is what allows them to make these games GPL.
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
The GPL is a way to make intellectual property work they way it should by default.