- cross-posted to:
- gamedev@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- gamedev@programming.dev
I made a blog post about my experience switching from Unity to Godot earlier this year, and some tips for Unity devs.
I made a blog post about my experience switching from Unity to Godot earlier this year, and some tips for Unity devs.
I recently realized that Unreal is Open-source. I’m curious why it doesn’t seem to get any love from the FOSS community? I would personnaly glady ditch unity, but I heavily rely on video tutorials for my very amateur projects . So I was actually moving to Unreal…
As far as I know Unreal’s source code is available but the licensing isn’t, so the company still owns it and can still charge you for using it.
This is correct. If you took code from Unreal source and plopped it in Godot, you’d be in deep crap.
Open source is not necessarily FOSS
Indeed.
Unreal is “source available”, not Open Source. There’s a big difference. With any Open Source project you can legally fork the project, distribute your custom version of the code, create a community around your variant… “source available” has none of that. The Unreal EULA is more permissive than most game engine licenses (with the obvious exception of Godot) but it still comes with plenty of restrictions. For example:
Which pretty clearly does not satisfy the Open Source Definition.
That’s a really informative reply, it clarifys things for me. Thanks a lot!