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Originally Posted by image
open source doesn't get wiped away by overzealous lawyers.
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You have greater faith than I in the reasonableness of lawyers and in dev communities' abilities to avoid legal bullshit thrown their way by corporations.
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Originally Posted by image
It is one thing if a private server owner went in and had an agreement (which I still think sets a bad precedent, as if we need some paper to say yea its ok to emulate you, reverse engineering is NOT ILLEGAL).
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It shouldn't be, but there have been situations wherein companies have caused major headaches claiming that the reverse engineering of their products resulted in, among other things, "circumventing copy protections", running it afoul of the DMCA.
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Originally Posted by image
You just had the person running not only P99, but EQEmu's servers go into an agreement which might affect EQEmu inadvertently (I don't know since its some sealed guidelines).
You think Daybreak games feels any different now if someone put out a H1Z1 emulator that was full blown emulated or EQ Next? That will be getting C&D's right away don't fool yourselves. Corporations change like the wind blows you can't expect this to be a real answer they should have just acknowledged the eqemu community or emulators as a whole (community project).
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I share the feeling of uncertainty, and have had great difficulty feeling there is any sense of immunity up to this point.
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Originally Posted by Akkadius
I've been on the "in" of these conversations.
All I've got to say is stop worrying.
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This is heartening, and strengthens my hopes that emulation's foundation is becoming less and less like quicksand as things progress.