Just one example, RPG's Quake 3 map was used in OpenArena. The GPL expands and eases the ability for other authors to leverage existing work, if necessary. How many of them did not give credit? Even less. Releasing a map source is no risk really how many GPL map remakes have you seen? Not many. Sadly hipnotic was abandoned rather than GPLed. if their maps were GPL, mappers could just take prefabs from them, for example the rotating stuff. Imagine if the hipnotic monsters/weapons were GPL, projects like Quoth could just grab them and polish them up, completely legal. Id gave up Quake, so giving up a map (to the public) is really a comparatively small thing. Please consider that you yourself are using GPL software had id not GPLed Quake, there would be no Darkplaces, ezquake etc. If you opened the source for src.bsp, we could take out some of the bobs :) and some people would then enjoy the map more. Anybody who has problems with the map can just fix them and not bug the author. Template for making contest/event maps (speedrunning etc.)Ĩ. should the map one day be abandoned or the author lose interest, open source allows others to fix bugs, make a Quoth version, any number of thingsħ. for others to use stuff in their own map (no more need for prefabs) -> this increases productivityĤ. for others to learn from it ("that's how he did it")ģ. for easy demonstration of features/monsters/ideasĢ.
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