The modding tools for the original Call of Duty (released in 2003), including CoDRadiant, Asset Manager, and their associated compilers, were officially released by Activision and Infinity Ward to empower the community. For over two decades, these tools have been the bedrock of a passionate mapping and modding scene.

However, these crucial programs are now critically outdated and exhibit severe technical limitations on modern systems, actively hindering creativity rather than enabling it. While other games of the same era have received robust, community-maintained SDKs and modding tools, Call of Duty (2003) remains shackled to buggy, 20-year-old software. The community reports persistent compatibility issues and the map compiler suffers from memory limits that cause lightmap calculations to take hours.

To preserve this piece of gaming history and empower future creators, we, the undersigned, call on the decision-makers at Activision (now under Microsoft) to release the source code for the Call of Duty (2003) modding tools under an open-source license.

We believe that releasing this code would not damage any current commercial interests but would instead stand as a powerful gesture of goodwill towards the community that has supported the Call of Duty franchise since its inception. We urge the current rights holders to unlock the full potential of the original Call of Duty's creative community.