Amazon Reportedly Purchased Crytek’s Engine

[TechBoyJK]

They acquired a "license" to do so, as described in my post prior to yours. A license is still a license.



Nope. Crytek will still be a separate entity doing its own thing, and whatever Amazon does with their license is Amazon's business. They are two completely separate things, unless there is some sort of undisclosed terms in the licensing deal that can come to rear its ugly head somewhere down the line.

I have to disagree. Acquiring the source code isn't a license to the code. It's actual ownership of the code. License neq Ownership.

Semantics though, and I understand your point.

http://starcitizens.com/erin-roberts-comments-crytek-troubles/

We did an outright buyout of the engine last year and have the source code, so while we hope all the noise about Crytek blows over, as they are great partners and friends to the project, if the worse happened we would be ok, as we’ve already branched the engine and have a large team that is adding features and supporting it every day here at CIG. So even in the worst case scenario we should be fine, but obviously we hope it does not come to that. - Erin Roberts

Licensing CryEngine isn't expensive. Buying it out and owning the source code is.