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So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized. http://gpl.ea.com/ http://gpl.ea.com/ Additionally, EA purchased ES

So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized. http://gpl.ea.com/ 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.

JoeHegarty 11y ago
Yeh. This is BioWare's first open source project but it is not EA's.
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dezgeg 11y ago
Those aren't projects developed by EA. They are just source releases of the LGPL components used in EA games.
- dxq 11y 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.
  - valarauca1 11y ago
    If anyone is interested in the EASTL here's the source code https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL Apparently works out of the box with G++/GCC, some modifications were made to get it working Clang/LLVM
DonHopkins 11y ago
We talked EA into releasing the source code of SimCity Classic under GPL v3 several years ago: https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
ctide 11y ago
https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql for example, was originally written at EA.