Will SOASE become open source like FreeSpace 2?

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Sorry if this have been posted somewhere, but i'm just curious. Will Ironclad release their source code of SOASE (after they stop supporting this game or there is something) as open source so the community? Because maybe the community can do something like unofficial patch or unofficial expansion pack for SOASE without hit the hardcoded barrier. Hope this thread will have developer answer.

 

Thank you for the answer and sorry if this have been discussed before (i use search function but i found 10 pages that not related to my curiousity). And sorry for my bad english

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

First, let see the history of FreeSpace 2 :

Volition Inc, the company responsible for developing the game FreeSpace 2 was bought over by THQ in 2000. With Interplay Entertainment holding the licenses for the FreeSpace series, Volition could not continue to develop the series. Without any viable use for the source code, Volition released the source code for FreeSpace 2's game engine on 25 April, 2002...

For a similar situation, Stardock need to hold the license for SOASE, Ironclad need to be buy over by somebody other... So, Ironclad will not more be able to use the SOASE source code and maybe they will release it...

I don't think that it will happen... the iron engine is relatively new, have some huge potential when the code is expand to 64 bits and multicore... in fact, it is very possible that after a SOASE 2 and a SOASE 3, the engine have become so much good that Ironclad can maybe license it for some other games...

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Hmm, doesn't Ironclad have rights for SOASE? Stardock just published it and not own it, as far that i know.

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