Winch Gate

Cyprus-based company, staffed in part by former Nevrax developers, that operates the science-fantasy MMORPG Ryzom — originally launched in 2004 as The Saga of Ryzom by Paris studio Nevrax, which entered receivership in 2006. In 2010, in partnership with the Free Software Foundation, Winch Gate open-sourced over two million lines of Ryzom code under the AGPL and the game's artwork under CC-BY-SA, one of the first commercial MMORPGs to do so.