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Rogean and Nilbog are Breaking the Law!
No, I don't mean by re-creating an old game ... I mean by making modifications to the EQ Emulator source code, and not publishing those modifications.
Backstory: Project 1999 (AFAIK) is based off the EQ Emulator project, https://github.com/EQEmu/Server. As you can see at that link, that project has chosen the (absolutely terrible) GPL3 license to open source their code: https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob/master/LICENSE That (again, terrible) license ... well I won't quote its legalese, but if you look at a summary of it on https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-ge...ense-v3-(gpl-3), you'll see: Quote:
Two important notes: 1) I am not a lawyer, just a copyright law hobbyist, and 2) the GPL does not in any way cover the database; they have no obligation to open source that. But still ... thoughts? P.S. For what it's worth I'm not a fan of this: I'd like to keep the game's secrets ... secret. But the GPL3 is, by design, unforgiving. If you use GPL3 source code in any way, even on a server, you are legally obligated to share modifications to that code (unlike the much saner GPL2).
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Last edited by loramin; 12-10-2021 at 12:07 PM..
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Cure the violation just like Team Biden cured those ballots!
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Is OP trying to use some legal threat to shut down the server unless they release the source code?
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I get that you are going for click baity with the title but it’s a bit close to staff bashy...
Personally i agree with your footnote and would be happy to stick to a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ type gentleman’s agreement regarding the source. Sure would be helpful to have for bug reporting reasons ... but also (for better or worse) seeing past the matrix min max reasons ...
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OP it sounds like what you're talking about is a doomsday machine.
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Tried looking for this on the wiki, but it wasn't there. Perhaps OP should create a wikipage.
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I setup a thread on the daybreak forums
wvw.daybreakthreads.cat/AttentionDaybreak!!!THEFTofIPinProgress/SHUTDOWNP99-notSharingCode-IllegallyUsingSoftware | ||
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