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I have a feeling they'll make the game open source when they die. Dwarf Fortress is their life's work, and they just want it to grow. If I recall they made the map generator open source.
i think they've mentioned in the past that the code will be donated and go open source after they've died. although i guess it would be torture to work on a 700,000 line 20 years old non-standard c/c++ codebase with almost no documentation with so many intricacies that touching one part will almost certainly introduce a bug in an unrelated place. i hope they get people onboard before they pass it on to the community.
Oh, the map generator is open source? I've always thought it would be rad to use as a jumping off point for building a D&D setting to play in, but using the game for that is impractical.
I think so, but I've never looked into it personally. I remember hearing someone mention it before but I could be wrong.