The impending release of Doom 3's source code has been teased by id Software's John Carmack, who says the company is merely waiting on "final lawyer clearance for release."
While id Tech 4 may be showing its age -- Doom 3 launched in 2004, after all -- it's still being used by mainstream games and one can only imagine what homemade wonders will come out of the engine going open source. Patience, people.
Doom 3: The Sourcening Approaches [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
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8:30 PM on 11.01.2011 | 
The industrial revolution is over. Academicism is obsolete.
Which reminds me...I gotta beat this game.
That would be perfectly legal, it is Open Source, after all.
It would be legal. The engine he'd be using would be open source, but all the art assets, storyline, voice work, etc. would still be his work to own and sell.
If it's under the GPLv2 license like the Quake 3 source, then probably yes he can give his game to you for free or for sales. BUT ... he has to give you the source code, along with any modifications to it, to you as well.
That the rule for GPLv2.
If he wants to keep the source code private, he can get a normal license from id, for a fee of course.
@wanderingpixel
To mod is to alter a game. You can pass around your mod but the people will obvious need the game in order to use your mod.
When id open sources it's engines, what they are doing is giving away the ENTIRE game engine - minus the art, music ... etc. You can do what you will with the code with certain restrictions based it's license which in this case is the GPLv2.
The GPLv2 requires that if you make any changes to the source code and distribute the resulting program, you MUST distribute the modified source code free of charge as GPLv2 as well.
That's my understand of GPLv2 anyway.
If your into that kind of thing, you should check it out.
The rest just as to stand by and let it pass us by and droll about the possibilites.