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Richter: Quake Engine Rewritten in Rust

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Super cool and demo compat is a big achievement here!

I do feel a little, idk iffy about the MIT license. It's pretty clearly not a clean room reimplementation, and routing around the GPL like this feels not totally cool. I definitely think it's legal, but idk, when id was cool enough to open source their code under the GPL and you route around it like this, feels against the spirit and maybe disinclines other companies to do similar things... though probably no one cares tbh.

> though probably no one cares tbh

I hope so.

Err. Isn't the quake engine owned by Zenimax who are owned by Microsoft. That's a big if.

Also, I'm not sure if they could even grant such a license considering all the third party gpl contributions...

I just hope no-one cares about any licenses ever.

Probably only the

  unsafe

parts are GPLed.

> Richter makes use of feature gates and compiler plugins, which means you'll need a nightly build of rustc.

That's what i love at rust. You always get a compiler error if you don't use the "right" version.

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