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| DATE | 2025-03-19 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Electronic arts just GPLed some old games
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On 3/14/25 9:08 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Hey everyone
> in a jaw dropping positive move Electronic Arts (EA) just released the
> source code for some old Westwood studios games from the late 90's
> under the GPL Version 3 licence.
> its 6 games (though it can be argued its only 5 because 1 of them is
> the remastered edition for Windows 8 of 2 of the others) from the
> Command and Conquer series and the source can be found here
> https://github.com/electronicarts
>
> EA is a notorious company that has done some really bad things in the
> past and even in recent years in the game industry, so I think this
> move to licence some of their older games under the GPL should be
> applauded by the community and I hope we see more of this from EA and
> other companies.
> I'm looking forward to seeing the first native Linux ports that don't
> need Wine or Proton
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and then there is this :)
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases
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