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Comment by NathanKP | Hacker News Reader

Wow, this is incredible. I can't wait to see the source for Aquaria.

I guess that the humble indie bundle is over now that the projects are open sourced. Or maybe people will continue contributing just to be nice.

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Note, the games will be "free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'": see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week -- stay tuned. It is the underlying code that will be made available to everyone

Maybe the Humble Indie Bundle will finish and they will switch to another form of sales, but they are not stopping selling the games.

Only the code is being open sourced. I presume this means that the graphics, sounds and other resources will stay closed. Thus, if you want the games, you will need to buy them.

Well... for a penny, yes.

You are allowed pay just a penny, no one is stopping you, but don't you think it is a bit... not-nice? The payment services will take that penny in charges (maybe even more? Don't know who gets stuck with negative, but you are possibly causing indie devs and charities to LOSE money.), plus you are going to cost Wolfire some bandwidth on top of that.

You can't play Lugaru all the way through. "We have included enough of the game data to run the demo version. Please note that the game data is not under the GPL, and forbids commercial redistribution." from http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Lugaru-goes-open-source

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