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nshunter | 11 years ago

So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized.

http://gpl.ea.com/

Additionally, EA purchased ESN which also has open source contributions that are maintained after the purchase. It might be fair to say that Orbit is the LATEST EA open source project, but not the first.

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DonHopkins|11 years ago

We talked EA into releasing the source code of SimCity Classic under GPL v3 several years ago:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis

dezgeg|11 years ago

Those aren't projects developed by EA. They are just source releases of the LGPL components used in EA games.

dxq|11 years ago

These are just the GPL releases, but they contain bits of code from EA if you start digging. IIRC the EAWebKit release contains a big chunk of EASTL. EASTL is EA's implementation of the C++ STL that was for a long time considered so great as to be a competitive advantage.

JoeHegarty|11 years ago

Yeh. This is BioWare's first open source project but it is not EA's.

unknown|11 years ago

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ctide|11 years ago

https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql for example, was originally written at EA.