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		mysterydip on May 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Defold game engine source now available and free t... I just downloaded the wolfenstein 3D and doom sources yesterday and saw an interesting restrictive license: https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/RE... I thought when Carmack originally released them they were GPL?

aquova on May 19, 2020 [–]

The original Doom license is not a free open-source license, and is in fact fairly restrictive. However you are right, the game was re-licensed a few years later under GPL, making the game dual-licenses under GPL and the Doom License.

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