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Originally Posted by Eglin
I haven't actually sniffed any packets, so all of my speculation should be taken w/ a grin of salt. I'm still probably going to write an open-source client at some point, though (if I finally go bband again). I would also probably evaluate the difficulty of modifying world.exe to work w/ the hq loginserver. I can't imagine running a public server where _my_ users would still have to register w/ EQEmu. Why should they? What if I have a falling out w/ the EQEmu project or branch the code? Do I want to have to still be subject to using their login server? I don't think so. Since the world/zone servers are gpl, a branch is a very real possibility. As far as splintering the user-base... I don't see any reason that loginservers couldn't pass information from one to another. Nor am I aware of anything that would prevent modifying world servers to register with multiple login servers. So, while the official stance is that minilogin is not and never will be open source, I think that you can still rest assured that there will eventually be an open source login server.
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Are you listening to yourself?
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//general rant not directed specificly at you Eglin
yes EQemu is opensource and GPL but that doesnt mean you can rip it off however you want (even though it may be legal). 'branching' is immoral and not right. We didnt work this hard the past few years for someone to walk in and take over the project just because they think they could do better or want to take credit for it (not that i'm saying you are doing this).
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