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great documentary.
i remember, as a kid we had those elementary school scholastic book fairs. i begged and pleaded with my parents to get me 3d game maker. i was told no, but maybe next year. we never saw it on shelves again. only a few years later, i found fps creator, and since my parents still didn't want to pay for it i resorted to pirating it xD made a lot of absolute shite, but it was still really fun to mess around with! these days, it's actually open source, including a litany of free resource packs, so that's kind of cool! because of the computers i had growing up until i was an adult with a job and could actually buy things i wanted, this original version of fps creator was about the only thing i could run as far as 3D game development goes, so i would end up sticking with RPG Maker instead. what an interesting world i'd live in if i had gone the 3D route instead.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense
https://opensource.org/osd/
Most, if not all of the available resource packs were probably proprietary, so nonfree rather.
@Suiseiseki yeah my bad i often use the term "open source" a little too lightly haha
You have now learned why "open source" is a bad idea - people really love saying that their proprietary software that somehow manages to fail the "OSI's" requirements is "open source".
Also: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
>you can't take the source code, put it into your own product and sell that, which i think is totally fine.
Infidels like you belong on a cross.
It's not acceptable to restrict freedoms, even the freedom to sell something.
@Suiseiseki if i'm to be put on a cross, put me upside down.
@Suiseiseki https://www.thegamecreators.com/product/fps-creator-classic-open-source
they claim it's open source on their website but perhaps not "true open source" or whatever the fuck. you can't take the source code, put it into your own product and sell that, which i think is totally fine. the fact that they let people look into the code and modify vast portions of it to create some pretty great advancements of the engine, plus the fact that you don't have to pay for it and you can still sell your games that use all of these model packs and the engine itself, is pretty damn good in my book.
from the github they also say this. there are certainly packs missing, but still a really good amount of stuff, pretty much anything you'd need.