Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

Company donates the whole shooting match to the newly formed foundation, joins as founding member

Amazon is abandoning its Lumberyard 3D engine project before it even leaves beta, but in a way that means it could live on for years to come: it's donating it to the newly formed Open 3D Foundation for release and continued development under a permissive open-source licence....