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Heretic And Hexen Released For All Under GPL

by John Kershaw on September 5, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Proper Retro games

The classic PC games Heretic and Hexen have been given new freedom across the internet with their release under the GNU Public Licence.

The new release means you can freely download, modify and distribute the source code as you wish, leading to much wider implications of the legal use of the games. Up until now players have had to resort to either breaking the law, or re-coding the games from scratch to play them along side other open source games.

With help from a massive community effort spanning over a decade, as well as a few insiders helping out, not least John Romero, the games are now free to roam unrestricted.

To get your hands on the source code, head over to the SourceForge page.

Via: Doom World (pic wikipedia)

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4 Comments »

  1. greeneggsnsam
    on September 6, 2008 12:54 am

    That’s funny, steam has just started doing a deal on id Software.

  2. Abaddon
    on September 9, 2008 10:21 am

    weeee,I love this,I’ll mod hexen

  3. Old Games
    on September 12, 2008 9:15 am

    Oh man, great news!
    I guess I’ll start writing a review of hexen asap.
    As a reward I’ll link to this post ;)

  4. John Kershaw
    on September 12, 2008 9:43 am

    @old games

    Thanks very much, I look forwards to the review :D

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