copyright used to only by 14 years plus a one time extention of another 14 years. Since quake 1 was released in 1996, it would be free for all to play with. Imagine being free to play with our own culture without all these work around.

Imagine being free. I can't honestly. Like a fish ,whose entire life was in a bowel, trying to imagine a ocean.

Isn't Quake already open source?

Do I understand it right that it's a free replacement of the still copyrighted game assists such as textures and models, and not the code itself? I'm curios if the level design wouldn't also fall into this.

Been playing some Xonotic recently. Good times with FOSS.

Wait, so there’s multiple engines? Someone explain this to me—if I wanted to play free Quake in the simplest way, what exactly would I need to install?