Facepunch Studios has announced that s&box, the long-in-development successor to Garry's mod, is now open source. "We're awesome," says studio founder Garry Newman , which we'll nod through because they kind of are. "S&box code is on GitHub now (Valve's code is still closed source, we're not open sourcing that)."

s&box has been made open source under the MIT license , and this means developers can basically do whatever they like with it: "You can view, modify, copy any of our code to help improve s&box with pull requests, or maintain your own fork for your standalone games, or even just take the code for your own engine."

Facepunch then explains why it's doing this, and nails its own colours to the mast: "It might seem odd from a business perspective to make an engine and give it away fo

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