I don’t play or promote videogames, I honestly just want to focus on developing open source software!! And I know that Tux and other mascots have their own open source games, but do you think the developers of mainline Linux play videogames??

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      8 months ago

      Oh, damn. Thanks for finding that man. Now I’m not sure where I read his stance on closed-source art. I might be mixing that up with Torvalds stance in tivoization, but I’m not sure. It might’ve been the Lunduke interview Wzstolzing mentioned.

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        8 months ago

        No he does actually mention in the middle of that that while code must be free, art is different because art is not software. I guess he’s imagining a situation where a game would have multiple licences (one licence for the code, a different one for the art assets).

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          Very few games would qualify for that, unfortunately. One of the few that comes to mind would be when iD released the source code to Doom 1, 2, and 3 under GPL, but with the assets still under copyright.