I've spent hours on the phone with SOE's legal department...
What your doing is TOTALLY Legal...
As long as you do not release .S3D files.. or .EXE files from the everquest directory...(such as zone files or eqgame.exe ect) They can not be legally patched, or distributed...
However Spells files, and UI's and everything like that you can distribute...
So this is a great idea!!
At Raid Addicts we just had a player make us a patcher .. You should check t hat out.. Not sure if it is as good as yours but worth looking into...
www.raidaddicts.org then click downloads...
Would also be cool if in your patcher you allowed for server ops to put their own images on it... Like we have with ours... Also it would be great if you had this patcher install itself in the most user friendly means possible.. And then add an icon to the desktop for the players to easily access it...
Keep up the good work.... Patchers was something eqemu voided away from for a while but since I have done the research and I know damn well SOE does not care.. It is for sure going to be an asset to this community..
Jordan "King" Mortenson
owner -
www.raidaddicts.org
PS: I will be willing to help you test this,, Contact me in IRC "KingMort" or via Email ...
KingMortenson@yahoo.com