''Warsow'', also stylized as ''War§ow'', is an
open source first-person shooter
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video game
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.
Development
''Warsow'' was first publicly released on June 8, 2005, as an
alpha version. The stable version 1.0 was released on July 28, 2012, after 7 years of development.
''Warsow''s
codebase
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is
free and open source software
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, distributed under the terms of the
GPLv2
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license; it is built upon
Qfusion
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, an advanced modification of the
Quake II engine
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. The artwork and other media were originally licensed under the