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polishTar | 1 year ago

Fast inverse square root is now part of the public domain.

Also, even if this weren’t the case you can’t sue for damages to other people (they’d need to bring their own suit)

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anonymoushn|1 year ago

Is the particular implementation that the model spits out 70+ years old?

unknown|1 year ago

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immibis|1 year ago

Has it really already been 70 years since John Carmack died?

polishTar|1 year ago

Ah, you're right. I was wrong to say "public domain".

It would be more correct to say Quake III Arena was released to the public as free software under the GPLv2 license.