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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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Yes, of course I am "listening" to myself. As far as I'm concerned, my expense of hosting a server trumps your desire to maintain control. If I were setting up a server, those would be important questions that I would have to address before committing. And there are more.
Define "rip off." Someone else made comments about claiming code as your own and such, too. Frankly, I don't understand where you're coming from. There is a big difference between writing your name all over the source code and expecting it to remain there and expecting all of _my_ users register on _your_ board. The GPL's intent is to make code free. That means that you are free to do whatever you want with it. Branching isn't evil! 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?