I don't see what the big deal is.
I have to agree with Phantom on this one, if you don't want your stuff to be GPL, don't release it, keep it private.
This argument/thread can really only lead to one logical conclusion if people don't just forget it and either keep stuff private, or give it to the community as GPL. . .and it won't be a nice one, I fear.
As a software developer, I am not ignoring or forgetting the value of IP, or the hard work that often goes into coding.
But this is supposed to be a COMMUNITY, where everyone shares pretty much everything, for people to do as they like with. At least, that's what I gather.
Who more than Ryan and the rest of the dev team has contributed more to this community? RunUO is a pretty big project IMHO, it runs well, has lots of features, and they've GIVEN it to us, source and all.
Why argue with how they want to license it, and derived works?
What if they were to take RunUO away? Close the source? Compile all the scripts into it and 'Too bad, no more customization, use what's there'?
That would just plain suck.