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squeaky-clean on July 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code r...

They never open-sourced any of their engines until after they had published a game with the next iteration of their engine.

mannerheim on July 6, 2021 [–]

Sure, but that just means they had multiple methods of ensuring they had created a suitable moat against competitors, the GPL being just one of them.

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