Fresshness said:
I fully understand, and I would indeed be a little miffed, but you see, I can totally evade that situation by
a) making the license *NOT* GPL, LGPL, Public Domain or Freeware (btw; isn't it stated somewhere on these forums, that once you published a script here, it automaticly is considered Public Domain).
b) compiling/encoding/encrypting the source so you don't give away the source
If you know about these things and still proceed, it really is your own fault for not doing so.
It's like putting your holiday pictures on the internet and later complaining that half of the world has seen your 'less-than-bikini' pictures.
I'm sorry to say, but it's your own fault.
Unfortunately the version of RunUo they used appears to have been closed source so arguing about the GPL is totally useless..
no matter what way you look at it they still took the code and tried to pass it off as their own work ..
no matter what type of coloured glasses you wear to look at life this is still wrong.
They should not lie and try to pass off other peoples work as their own ( wether they stole it or not )
they should at least have the decency to credit the original authors even if it was just to add a footnote to their website saying "this only resembles RunUo as we had a look at their code for some pointers"
The fact that they did not do this just goes to prove that they either dont give a shit what anyone thinks of them or that they are in total ignorance of the fact that this is based on RunUo source .. and if this is the case they should have took the time to find this out before they started making claims about the WowwoW emu.
The fact that some of the WowwoW devs have even come into this thread and tried to plead ignorance just goes to show what they really think rather than offer to put in a footnote saying "thank you" all we have heard so far is " point to the parts you wrote and prove their your creation "
No wonder they went underground with this project.. what they should really have said was were going underground because we havnt got a clue how to do this and we need time to rip off someone elses work and make it look like we have built a proper emu by ourselves.
As iv said before the only honest member of the dev team there was Dr Nexus who for reasons of his own left the project, at least he had the decency to credit RunUO and admit he used its core as a roadmap for his own emu. the rest of the team there seem to be wearing some kind of +100 cloak of ignorance with a +50 ring of indifference just for show.
Sorry WowwoW but until you post an apology here to RunUo and start to give credit were credits due then i wont have a nice thing to say about anyone involved there. and i think since the exit of Dr Nexus no one there is willing to take enough responsibility to do this. Get off your ass Driller and finally do something for the community and face the facts... YOUR EDITING RunUo code and claiming it yours.
, though it's never been a secret that my shard runs on RunUO. Thanks for all your work guys.
