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The Descent 3 Source code has been released (under MIT license): https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

> This is the latest version of the Descent 3 source code. This includes the '1.5' patch that Jeff Slutter and Kevin Bentley wrote several years ago. At the time, it worked for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

@Doomed_Daniel Glad to see the licence situation resolved! I always get nervous when I see people saying "Oh, there's no licence right now, but we don't need to let that stop us contributing"

@Cheeseness
yeah, I definitely want to know what kind of license my contributions end up in...

@Doomed_Daniel I mean... if you haven't agreed to have your work licenced under some future licence, it can't be without your consent. It's messy and awful for everyone to try and resolve that after the fact

@Cheeseness @Doomed_Daniel (Though there are some exceptions, like BSD licensing and CC-0. Stuff under those can usually be re-licensed to other licenses.)

@kazriko @Doomed_Daniel It's difficult to see those as exceptions. With CC-0, you're waiving rights (effectively giving implicit permission for anything/everything). Licencing your work under BSD doesn't allow people to relicence your work without your consent (being used in a work with a compatible licence doesn't relicence your work)

@Cheeseness @Doomed_Daniel With BSD, it's still licensed as BSD, but it can also be licensed as GPL as part of a greater work and modified, or even as a closed source application in a modified form without releasing the changes... The original code is still BSD, but the modified and incorporated code is now covered by whatever license, with the provision that you need to note that it includes this bsd package, and that bsd package, etc.
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@kazriko @Doomed_Daniel Yes. That's what I was referring to