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Carmack rewriting Doom 3 source code to dodge legal issues | VG247

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2011-11-18T00:17:14.000Z
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According to a tweet from the developer, Bethesda’s lawyers are “skittish about the patent issue” surrounding the code for “Carmack’s Reverse,” which is a stencil shadowing technique patented by Creative Labs and jointly created by the id legend and other coders.

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