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Kovarex Is Thinking About Open-Sourcing Factorio | Factorio Interview: Michal Kovařík [Czech; Eng Subs] (www.youtube.com)

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cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/2418820

For me, the most interesting point was the short mention of open sourcing Factorio (around 2:40). Kovarex seems to be very much open to the idea, he mentions that (as an approximation) maybe two years after the DLC after things calm down ...

(Hope this is not much of a titlegore)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Notch said the same thing about Minecraft. I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the source code of the Java version open for modding?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Not really. There is de-obfusication headers which They officially provide which can make decompiled source readable for the purpose of making mods, You're not allowed to redistribute any of the code.

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