Via Twitter leave id Software programmer John Carmack release that his company is almost the source code of Doom 3 can release. The source code will probably be under a GNU General Public License appear.
Via Twitter reply John Carmack a question from a Russian fan that the Doom 3 source code packaged and tested’. “We’re waiting on the final approval of the lawyer before we can the source code can release it.” A date calls Carmack, however, does not.
That the source code would be released, had Carmack, the engineprogrammeur of id Software, has announced during a lecture in August. This keeps the studio true to its own tradition, and after a number of years, the source code of their game engines. Probably the code under a GPLv3 license. Likely textures, sounds, models and animations are not to be released.
Doom 3 came out in August 2004 on the market. In 2005, the studio the source code free of Quake III: Arena, that when was five years old. In 2010 followed the source code of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Update, 16:21: this article was originally that the code probably only should be used for non-commercial projects, because the code is likely under the GPLv3 license. The GPLv3 license does not provide a prohibition on use in commercial projects; however, there are requirements, like revealing source code.
