Ok, since the law doesn't seem to be swaying people, let's look at the logic behind it.
A bunch of programmers on the EQ Emulator project wrote a lot of code, to let people enjoy this great game of EverQuest. It was a lot of work. They said to the world "hey world, you can use all our work, for free! The only price is that you have to share what you add."
Rogean and Nilbog came along and said "thanks for all that free work, we'll totally use it on our project ... but fuck you, we're not sharing, we're just taking your code illegally".
Does that bother anyone else?
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