Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDon’t even need to release the code. Just the server binary of the game.
Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDon’t even need to release the code. Just the server binary of the game.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Sure, but the point is to be realistic and not put undue weight on the developers, right? Binaries can generally be much more permissive than source code when proprietary dependencies are involved, and easier to release “clean” than source code.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.