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LibreQuake aims to create a completely free Quake alternative compatible with mods (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

copyright used to only by 14 years plus a one time extention of another 14 years. Since quake 1 was released in 1996, it would be free for all to play with. Imagine being free to play with our own culture without all these work around.

Imagine being free. I can't honestly. Like a fish ,whose entire life was in a bowel, trying to imagine a ocean.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

Whose entire life was in a... what?

[-] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

I mean it would be pretty hard to imagine an ocean if all you knew was bowels

[-] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Been playing some Xonotic recently. Good times with FOSS.

[-] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Isn't Quake already open source?

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago

All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.

As I understand it the engine is Foss but the assets aren’t, like the doom engine vs the doom wad.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

So I would presume this libre alternative would have all the assets free, no?

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

According to their GitHub the art is BSD licensed and the rest GPL

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 days ago

This seems to be similar to Freedoom.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Or OpenArena

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Do I understand it right that it's a free replacement of the still copyrighted game assists such as textures and models, and not the code itself? I'm curios if the level design wouldn't also fall into this.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Wait, so there’s multiple engines? Someone explain this to me—if I wanted to play free Quake in the simplest way, what exactly would I need to install?

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

This is not an engine, this is the freedoom equivalent for quake. You will need a quake engine like QuakeSpasmSpiked and then follow the how to play instructions.