One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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    1 year ago

    You 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

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      1 year 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.

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        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

        I agree the phrase “open source” is a bit confusing

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          they want it to be open source so that they can’t do a unity

          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