MacroQuest64

Sooo... how did this thing turn out?

I'm a nosey bastid.

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First, you can't pay someone to work on the MQ code and keep it private. It was written under the Gnu Public License, which means any source code changes have to be shared.

Spend a couple hours working on finding offsets and the next time you need them you'll find that you can do it very rapidly. When I first started looking for offsets for myself it took forever. Now it takes me about 3 minutes to find any single offset. It takes ap50 almost no time at all, and he usually posts complete, correct offsets within an hour or so of the patch.

If you want to pay someone to do offsets for you, contribute to the MQ project as a whole instead. You won't get new offsets any faster by paying someone, since we have to wait for the new eqgame.exe file to be patched in before we can even start on them. Donations are always gratefully accepted... and no, I don't get a share of them :) I don't need the money, and I have more fun working on this than playing EQ right now. It's been a great learning experience so far.

This is not really true. Nothing in the GPL requires you to post modifications to the original project. Now if I was to modify the code and give a binary to someone else I AM required to make the source available to that person since it is GPL'd. Technicaly I could branch off MQ and make all the personal modifications I want and give it away to friends with the source and never post it to the MQ project or anywhere else. However, I must make the source of the modified code available with the binary when giving it away.

Would I do that? no. I would much rather post my changes an active project and have it benifit from all the other coders out there already working on it.

The GPL faq says what I tried to say much better:


The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.

But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the users, under the GPL.

Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you.


Thanks

Well... license breach or not there are modifications to MQ that the source code is not being shared. But honestly how would you go after someone that broke that license... this all is infringing upon Sony's rights....or so sais Sony.

Anyway... as earlier posters in the thread stated it would be great to have someone paying to speed up work but I doubt droken will be sharing that with the community.

So grats to whoever got the job and may Capitalism live forever :p