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Legal status

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Revision as of 15:05, 26 March 2013 by Hectate (talk | contribs) (Legal Discussions)

This new wiki page is a start. The info here its actually in alpha state.

Quake Trademark

Quake is a registered trademark of id Software. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Shambler, Fiend and other characters may also be property of the id software.

Engine

You can download GPL versions of the Quake engine.

Medias

Original models, maps, textures ... property of Id Software. There exist a few full replacement projects with GPL license.

The Quake palette, though, has been permitted by John Carmack to be freely distributed (citation needed).

Compiler tools

A set of compilers tools has been released as GPL.

Legal Discussions

Unspecified user added a To-Do; add here links to forums threads about the legal status of the quake stuff..

http://www.quakesrc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4703