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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I think that's how the open source ports of Doom and Quake work. The shareware files are enough to get it up and running, since they're free to distribute.

As for the engine in this specific case, it's Unreal, possibly without any modification, so the engine is already available with source.