Originally Posted by
blakeman8192
The client and cache are illegal, period. They are reverse-engineered and totally break copyright of Jagex physical source-code property. Also, our servers, unless licensed via GPL or some similar license which states that the server is not intended for any particular purpose, are illegal because they emulate the RuneScape protocol which is copyrighted Jagex intellectual property.
Which is why we're all so lucky that wL released the very first base under the GPL license, which protects everyone that uses any winterlove based server. Mind you, however, that because of the copyright held by wL and the licensing of the GPL of winterlove/blakescape servers, that if you release any part of your server, you legally must release all of it 100% open-source, or else you forfeit your copyright/holding of the license and then are breaking copyright laws against the original server creator, wL, simply by modifying the server code alone.
Clients are still entirely illegal though, so they must be hosted off shores with some non-DMCA compliant country.
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