Linux Foundation Launches Open 3D Foundation, Amazon Lumberyard Spun As Open 3D Engine - Phoronix

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2021-07-06 18:30:16

The Linux Foundation and their partners are today announcing their intent to form the Open 3D Foundation to help foster 3D game and simulation technologies. As a key part of this new Open 3D Foundation, Amazon's Lumberyard game engine that started off based on CryEngine is going to see an Apache 2.0 licensed copy made available as the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).

An "updated version" of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is going to form the basis of the new Open 3D Engine being maintained by the Open 3D Foundation. Amazon previously made Lumberyard available on GitHub while keeping to a proprietary license but this move is indeed seeing Open 3D Engine made available under an Apache 2.0 license and "unencumbered by commercial terms and will provide the support and infrastructure of an open source community through forums, code repositories, and developer events."

This new Open 3D Engine will be available on GitHub as o3de/o3de. This is not to be confused with Intel's own open-source project called Open3D (Open3D.org) for dealing with 3D data and under an MIT license.