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Re: sign my petition to EA to open-source Renegade [message #493711 is a reply to message #493709] Thu, 01 May 2025 13:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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iRANian wrote on Mon, 28 April 2025 18:03
They were gifted the parts of the original Renegade source code around 2009 by Apoc. And they RE'd most of the other code.

No one can tell if they use the GPL'd source code or not, if they just rename some things inside the fuctions (e.g. variables) and use slightly different control statements no one can tell if it's RE'd code or GPL code.

It's stupid to act as if it's a real issue.
I mean, we already had a leak once, so if it happened again and there was GPL'd code from the open source release then it'd be super easy to prove at that point.

Even ignoring that I believe over the years they have used disassembly that is close enough to the original code to justify reason to aquire private source code bases (not EA just in general).


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