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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, I. Levashew wrote:

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Phaedrus wrote:                                                                |
|> And imagine trying to sell associated expertise for a game!  A new game       |
|> company might be in a bad position with the current Ada situation, having to  |
|> choose to make their game GPL (no profits)                                    |
|                                                                                |
|There's no any big problem here. Games like Duke Nukem, Quake have their source |
|available. It's already happened. But arts, sounds and levelsets by no any mean |
|must be free for use and distribution. It is the most hard work in game         |
|creation. So the vendor still has the control.                                  |
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|[..]"                                                                           |
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The source code for Quake has been released long after Quake had been
originally available for sale. Perhaps this was also the case for Duke
Nukem or Duke Nukem 3D.