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In his QuakeCon 2005 keynote, John Carmack revealed that after some delays id is finally ready to release the complete Quake III source code for use under the terms of the GPL. He could not give an exact date, but was confident that this would occur "within a week". Currently id is making sure everything is licensed correctly and everything builds, and as soon as that is complete the whole package will be set free.

Carmack also noted that he is looking forward to some day seeing somebody ship a commercial title, probably a budget game, under the GPL. He'd like, for example, someone use the Quake III source to complete their own shooter and ship it with the full source code included on the CD. Carmack expressed frustration with people who get overly protective about code that is largely built on the work of someone else.

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This should be of great benefit to all you small developers out there.

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Currently id is making sure everything is licensed correctly and everything builds, and as soon as that is complete the whole package will be set free.

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It will be nice to have this finally available; I've been wanting to get my hands on the engine code for several years...money was always the problem

Thanks for the update G.

As an alternative there is the latest version of the QFusion engine, which supports Q3 BSP, an increased number of Q3 shader commands, as well as a custom BSP format (lightstyles, higher resolution lightmaps) and Raven's format used in Jedi Acedemy. The version I linked to above includes full dynamic lights and GLSlang integration as well as stencil shadows.

The only negative with the engine is that the Release 7 build is VERY CPU limited in detailed maps. But R6 combined with a couple sorting fixes is actually slightly faster than the last build of Quake3. Unfortunately I was never able to convince the leader programmer of the QFusion project that he had introduced a serious problem somewhere in the midst of producing R7.

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7547

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