Originally Posted by Eglin

The beauty of the GPL is that it makes joins just as common as forks. Since all works derived from GPL works are themselves GPL works, that is the way that it goes. If someone decides to make their little eqemu server into a beast that doesn't use the official loginservers, so be it. If that person decides to call their emulator emueq, so be it. If that person removes all references to eqemu making it impossible to tell, as an end-user, that their server derives from your hard work (or mine), so be it. I think you'd better get used to the idea, in fact. It isn't that this person is trying to take credit for your work, they just aren't crediting you. Well, that's they way it goes. How many people would run apache if it forced a link to its homepage at the bottom of every web page it served?