• echo64@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    the reality is that it can’t be the standard. id Software is the exception because they happened to own 99% of the code.

    Ubisoft can’t release the source code to some random game because it uses a lot of other companies code for physics, sound, networking, AI, scripting, graphics, everything.

    The most realistic answer to this is that if you don’t offer public access to copy-written works for 10 years, then it should fall into public ownership. let people pay for it or let the public own it.