Thread: What if Space Empires VI went Open Source?
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Old September 19th, 2006, 01:19 AM
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Default Re: What if Space Empires VI went Open Source?
That depends... "open source" does not really mean "free source," just that the source code is open for inspection and modification (and not necessarily to the public). Open source apps tend to be free, but the two things are different beasts. Most of the important Civ4 source is open, it is just not "free" (though the SDK is free, you still need a bunch of closed source backbone in the exe to make much use of it).
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