Heres something I was wondering; could the open source community legally look at the illegal code and rewrite it with equivalent code, to make an open source version of the engine; thus allowing open source games to make a huge leap forward? Or would any code derived from the illegal source code in itself also be illegal code?
(Edit: and another thing, Valve have effectively lost a lead over their competitors right? There is nothing they can do with the old code to regain that lead. So would it make sense to make their part of the HL2 code open source; thus ensuring the competition; while able to use the code legaly; effectively end up having to compete with lots of valve derived games, loosing their own leads and completely changing the shape of the market?)
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