A little clarification

Pyrotek · #1 07-10-2002, 02:39 PM

We are working on sorting out the licensing issue with the Login server. The EQEmu project is NOT dead.

wurmslayer2k · #2 07-10-2002, 02:41 PM

Wewt first post! Thank god not closing EMU =p

Yodason · #3 07-10-2002, 03:40 PM

how the HECK did you assume project was dead?

chocobo · #4 07-10-2002, 03:46 PM

but i love you guys

dont let an asshole stand in your way to glory!

Yodason · #5 07-10-2002, 04:00 PM

Shawn319 · #6 07-10-2002, 11:09 PM

umm???? that is complete bullshit. the loginserver is NOTTTTT GPL. do NOT give out the loginserver.

LaZZer · #7 07-11-2002, 05:45 AM

The Emu was fun for a while. You guys did a great job on in. Sorry to see you go like this but oh well. Thanks again though.

stormgod · #8 07-11-2002, 05:48 AM

WTF is going on here ?

Shawn319 · #9 07-11-2002, 07:10 AM

Yodason posted links to a website that had the loginserver source on it (probably made by him).

madborg · #10 07-11-2002, 07:13 AM

There is only one problem to resolve -- that GPL file in the login server. If anythng, this may show a weakness in the GPL itself and not in the project. Although it wouldn't hurt to take it to the guys that handle the GPL license for their opinion too.

I suspect there are some sercurity issues with releasing the source to the login server and unless someone comes up with a way to bypass the EQ login server completely, releasing the source is too much of a liability.

Sometime ago I suggested that this project use the LGPL because it is not as restrictive as GPL and yet still qualifies as Open Source. In fact the OSI list many other versions of Open Source licenses.

One possibity is to release most of the login server as Open Source and only put the actually parts that deal with the EQ server and the corresponding packets under a binary-only. Then you separate the binary from the rest of the source.

A method like this has been used in ShowEQ.

In other words, there are ways to work around this issue in such a way that it satisfies most people and yet is stil in the spirit of Open Source.