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by Ralfp 582 days ago
The state of things here is that Unreal Engine 1 may be open sourced one day but would need cleaning up first. And they just never got around doing it:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6

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Why clean up first? Could be devs pushing back because they're ashamed (unnecessarily) of their code?
We saw with Winamp how badly it can go (lots of license violations on vendored dependencies):

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-...

Cleaning up in this context means figuring out what parts of the code they actually own and removing/replacing the parts they don't.