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Switching from Unity to Godot: Tips and What You Should Expect (popcar.bearblog.dev)

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I made a blog post about my experience switching from Unity to Godot earlier this year, and some tips for Unity devs.

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[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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..

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is correct. If you took code from Unreal source and plopped it in Godot, you'd be in deep crap.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Open source is not necessarily FOSS

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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:

You are permitted to post snippets of Engine Code, up to 30 lines of code in length, online in public forums for the sole purpose of discussing the content of the snippet or Distribute such snippets in connection with supporting patches and plug-ins for the Licensed Technology, so long as it is not for the purpose of enabling third parties without a license to the Engine Code to use or modify any Engine Code or to aggregate, recombine, or reconstruct any larger portion of the Engine Code.

Which pretty clearly does not satisfy the Open Source Definition.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a really informative reply, it clarifys things for me. Thanks a lot!

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