Open Source One

Nexuiz is sort of a poster child open source project, an example of a high-quality game that’s developed by the open source community. Unfortunately, it may also be a poster child of how things can quickly go wrong once commercial interests are involved and when it’s unclear who controls a project. Phoronix is reporting that Nexuiz has forked into Xonotic because the founder of the project has entered a deal to allow proprietary use of the game name and code for a proprietary project.