Developer id Software at Quakecon announced this year the source code of Doom 3 to release. The developer holds a long tradition; since Wolfenstein 3D id the source code of game engines revealed.
John Carmack, technical director and co-founder of id Software, announced in his Quakecon-keynote that the source code of the Doom 3 engine, yet this year it is made public. According to Carmack has parent company Bethesda gave permission to the code, published in 2004 shooting game to publish. This will happen after the release of Rage, that from the 7th October in the shops.
It is likely that the Doom 3 source code published under version 3 of the GPL license, such as id Software, that also did with the source code for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Just as when will textures, sounds, models and animations, probably not to be released.
In the past, have interested developers the source code of id Software improved, is used as the basis for new games and ported to other platforms. According to Carmack will be the source of id Tech 5, the engine of Rage, ever be made public, but that can sometimes be ‘ten years’ duration.
