Hilo wrote:Without MaNGOS there would have been no Nostalrius. That's just a fact. If you're not going to give back to the community from whose work you benefited then that's on you. You're not obligated to legally, but morally, you disgust me. You took the Mona Lisa, painted a mustache on it, and called it your own original work.
While temporarily true, vanilla private servers have been around a lot longer than Nostalrius. And they will continue to be around a lot longer. If the talks with Blizzard are not completed to satisfaction of the Nostalrius team, they will release their improvements to the open source code.
If not, then I trust them to hold Blizzard to offer playable legacy servers. If Blizzard fucks up, the source code will be released and the competition between retail and private servers will be increased, until private servers eventually win. If they are smart, they will make their agreement not to release the source code tentative on Blizzard releasing playable legacy servers to the opinion of the Nostalrius team, not to Blizzards' opinion.
Anything else and yes they're leechers. But releasing now would not encourage Blizzard to listen.