Duion {l Wrote}:The problem with those plagiarism projects is, that they have not much to do with FOSS, since you cannot legally open source them.
Legally this is fan art and even though it is often tolerated, it is not legal, so the companies, that are all hostile towards open source can sue you anytime for a zillion dollars and then your project is history.
So let's get a project which got a C&D long ago: Freecraft. And what we have now from it? Stratagus engine and lots of games, especially Wyrmsun.
It shouldn't be possible if, years ago, some people did not decide to recreate the warcraft engine on a FOSS approach. For me it worth it.
And I know the case of this Counter Strike is a bit different as it seems to be on top of a already existing engine (yes, FPS games are a bit special case due to IDTech's GPL releases), but who knowns where it will be in the future (If not dead, probably will be in a similar way as OpenTTD: some free/libre contents on top of a free/libre engine).