RISC OS Open licence in hands of lawyers
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| "The open source licence (still with the lawyers after many months of
| careful drafting, but soon to be made available) under which RISC OS
| is made available either free or for pence per unit is not like the
| GPL one. Rather, as third parties improve RISC OS, they are obliged
| by the licence to publish details of those improvements and they
| then become part of RISC OS..."
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http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1785.html
Open source Quake 2 port emerges
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| Published in December 1997, Quake 2 was made open source in 2001
| by developers id, although you need to buy the game to get the
| official level designs, textures and other data to play.
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http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1784.html
There is a growing number of people who say that operating systems, like
pertinent software, will have to open up or perish.
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