Originally posted by GreenByte
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You are also allowed to fork UE4. You simply cannot make that fork public to anyone who has not signed the source access agreement. For example the recent FreeBSD support is in an independent GitHub repo forked from the original but you can only access it once you can access the original.
UE4 allows me to maintain my own version if they ever drop (i.e crappy Blueprints) or when they go bankrupt. When Unity goes bankrupt, they will take the source to the grave with them like Adobe has done with Flash.
And no, you cannot request Unity source code. They will simply not give it to you. In the past I have worked for a pretty large game company where we requested a source code license because we wanted to do the Emscripten port (before Unity managed to move its arse into gear over a year later). Unity simply said the source code is unavailable.
My experience with Unity (both the tool and the company) in the past is probably why I am so unimpressed by them. They pretend to be big and professional but they simply aren't and never will be. I have seen Unity damage companies and projects all the way from version 1.x to 5.x.
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