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Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ re-release that’s packed with upgrades (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by jay@mbin.zerojay.com to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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If you own either game already, you’ll get it for free.

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[-] ygpa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One of her points that resonated with me was that to get modern levels to work they did have to re-implement Boom features, which were GPL.

[-] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 1 points 3 months ago

Looks like it's a different engine, actually. So yeah, makes sense that if they needed to reimplement features, it's new code that wasn't pulled from Boom, so doesn't need to be GPL.

[-] ygpa@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's a port to Nightdive's Kex engine. It wasn't a literal accusation of a GPL violation, more just being disappointed about seeing open source work being captured into proprietary software.

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