Heretic and Hexen Sources Re-released Under the GPL

[glaber]

Quasar from Doomworld said:
In a surprise email from Raven Software employee James Monroe, James "Quasar" Haley of Team Eternity has been notified that the source code for Heretic and Hexen has been re-released under the GNU General Public License, and is now available from Sourceforge.

Having the code relicensed required a community effort spanning almost a decade. At its height, this included an online petition, an open letter, snail mail campaigns, e-mail, an international action item on GNU.org, insider efforts by Chris Rhinehart of Human Head Studios and Doom's own John Romero, and other activities carried on individually by countless community members.

This release is of monumental importance, as it will allow GPL Doom source ports to freely integrate support for Heretic and Hexen without requiring the code to be rewritten from scratch or to be emulated through empirical testing. The door is also now open for new ports such as "Chocolate" Heretic and Hexen, and for such ports to be distributed in free software packages.

Seeing that Srb2 was Doom based I figured this info needed to be spread here as it could affect AJ's Polyobjects for 1.1.

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

SSNTails has already done polyobject coding as apparently demonstrated by the 1.1 video. I only got to see that at the library, where YouTube was not blocked. (I missed the polyobjects in the video.) D:

 

[glaber]

Well either way I just wanted to inform the SRB2 community. (I assume SSN Tails already knows as I some times see him at Doom World.)