So i's basically cl_avidemo that renders an actual video instead of images. Would it be possible to make it render frame-by-frame (or does it already?) coz that would be awesome-sauce and make programs like fraps completely useless.
It's bad because you don't have the right/license to do so... it's that simple In the end no one would care (as long as you don't sell it) but that doesn't make it legal.
Yes, but someone who does something like this could also easily share every other game. I mean... if you pirate a complete closed-sourced game or just the assets of an open-sourced game... where is the difference?
Yes, but you only have to release the code, not the assets... I think people will still buy Jedi Academy and Outcast now even though the source is released. But you're right, it would be hard.
I agree, Raven released the coder under GPL... They know what they did and if they had something against a commercial use they would have chosen another license... Edit: And Quake3 is open-source as well...