Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding
heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoYou are not allowed to distribute unreal source. From their FAQ:
Unreal Engine licensees are permitted to post engine code snippets (up to 30 lines) in a public forum, but only for the purpose of discussing the content of the snippet
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But the code is easily visible and you can compile it yourself. If you say “I only run software I 100% knows what it does because I can read it’s source code” then Unreal Engine fits, it’s open source.
rbits@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That’s not why people want an open source game engine though, they want it to be open source so that they can’t do a unity
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That has nothing to do with open source, that has to to with licensing, which I’m pretty sure isn’t an issue anyway since I think Unreal versions are tied to specific license versions, i.e. if you download the engine under one term, thats the only one you have to use