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EA releases 4 C&C games as open source. (EA Has Done something..Good? and Praise Worthy? And not awful?) (kotaku.com)
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The Original Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Generals, and Renegade have all been released under GPL licensing to the public.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

when a game is open sourced its almost universally just the code, and not the art assets.

This is only speculation on my part, but I assume it has something to do with the headache of the art assets being used in media/advertising/etc and trying to detangle.

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