Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3

turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Though do also note that of these four, TD and RA1 were already made freeware years ago.

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  • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I realize. Intellectual property is an icky concept IMO but I know not everyone agrees

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Intellectual property is what allows them to make these games GPL.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The GPL is a way to make intellectual property work they way it should by default.

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• Ninmi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • 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.

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• Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The entire series is on sale on Steam right now for $6 if that helps.

  …steampowered.com/…/Command__Conquer_Remastered_C…

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.

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    • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sorry, that was the wrong link.

      …steampowered.com/…/Command__Conquer_The_Ultimate…

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      • Ilgaz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is a pretty standard affair for open sourced games.

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