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I think it would make a lot more sense for me to just do it my way with the gpl portions of the code. See... that's the beauty of the GPL. If you don't like something and can't compromise with the devs, you can always give them the finger and fork development.
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Go ahead and fork it if you want, but the thing you have to remember is that this project requires a huge amount of dedication, without it and you will be where Hackersquest is today. They are still stuck on the 6-6-2003 patch of eqlive and they STILL dont have as many features working as we had 4 months ago when we released 5.0. And another good thing about GPL is you cant call it your own, you have to keep the original license in effect, you cannot just change the license to state that you wrote it all by yourself. As for the login source issue, its not up to me, and even if it was I wouldnt release it. Why you ask? Numerous reasons:
1. The original devs dont want it released.
2. The dev who wrote the decryption dll doesnt want it released (we dont even have the source, so we couldnt even if we wanted to).
3. Login is useless without decryption of username/password.
4. If everyone had a public login server players would have a hard time finding a server to play on, being centralized means they can easily find one.
You can make a login server without decryption easily enough, but the decryption is what sets it apart.
Daeken's login server (as was told to me) uses php and uses an ip based verification system (in other words a minilogin alterative not a real login server).