  stratagus is a free cross-platform game engine used to build real-time strategy video games. licensed under the gnu gpl,stratagus's copyfile at debian packages it is written in c with the configuration language being lua. sdl, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used. ==history== thumb|left|200px|battle for mandicor screenshot on june 15, 1998 lutz sammer released the first public version of a free warcraft ii clone for linux he had written, named ale clone. in 1999 it was renamed to freecraft. in june 2003, a cease and desist letter was received from blizzard entertainment, who thought the name freecraft could cause confusion with the names starcraft and warcraft, and that some of the ideas within the engine were too similar to warcraft ii. the project halted on june 20, 2003.freecraft cease and desisted by blizzard â slashdot in 2004stratagus news the developers regrouped to continue the work by the name of stratagus, with a change in the aim: former interest in using the data-files from warcraft had diminished; the project using the data-files from warcraft ii was split-off into the new and separate project wargus and the free media set imitating warcraft ii was discontinued. development on stratagus was paused on june 10, 2007. the stratagus developers are now working on bos wars, which uses its own modified version of the stratagus engine. in june
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