Let me say this first to Bonner. I apologize for not answering your questions before I go off on this tangent here, but I will attempt to do so later on today. Please don't take any of the below as directed at you Bonner, as this is directly responding to the post two above this one (so the one from Igor).
The rest of this post is a rant directed at Igor, so if you don't like reading rants from developers, just stop reading now.
K_I_R_E_E_K hit the nail on the head with why my position is as it is. I do indeed care about people playing PSO, and that's why I take the position I do. I used to spend hours upon hours playing PSO back when Sega's server was still up and running. I remember how much fun it was to play with people from all over the world. I believe that the remaining PSO players should try to band together and form as few disjoint communities as possible. The whole point of PSO, in my opinion, should be to try to bring everyone from all over the world together to play. As I have said before and will say many times again, its much more fun that way. Meeting new people, making new friends, etc.
Also, like K_I_R_E_E_K said, there's nothing I can do to stop you from making your own server. If that was my paramount concern, it would've done me little good to distribute Sylverant in any way. Yes, you can make your own server. Yes, you can change the code to suit your needs (of course, the license here requires you open-source any modifications too). Yes, you can pretty much ignore anything I ask nicely of you to do in regard to it, and there's not much I can do to stop you. If I cared about that stuff more than I do, I wouldn't have released it, and I certainly wouldn't have made it open source.
The way I look at it is this: I can ask nicely to not fragment the community any more than it already is. You can either follow along, or you can ignore me; I can do nothing to stop you either way. I just don't think its good for what is left of the PSO community to fragment it any more than it already is.
Now, onto specific points things I want to respond to...
Wow, you say that the only reason you released the source code was Sylverant for others help you with the code... That to me means that you, and do not follow the ideals espoused by the Richard Stallman with the Free Software, who say the most important is the right to use, distribute, modify and distribute the modifications, still just want to get free developers for your server, which goes against the whole philosophy of free software!
Please don't lecture me on the ideals of Richard Stallman. I know exactly what he stands for, and I feel that my views on Sylverant follow that just fine. I want people to be able to learn from what I've done with Sylverant. After all, how many places do you see a good documentation of the PSO server protocols? Yes, I'd love to see a community of people helping me maintain Sylverant. More than that, I'd love to see a community of people all enjoying Sylverant, together. Playing PSO together. Having fun together. Making friends together. Fragmenting what's left of the community does not espouse the idea of togetherness that I feel that Open Source is supposed to bring. I don't restrict anyone's right to use/distribute/modify Sylverant in any way. I only make the humble request that you don't fragment the community. If I wanted to, I could write my own license that enforces that, but I don't. Don't tell me I don't follow the ideals of the Free Software movement.
This depends on your point of view! Many people have the capacity to do such a thing, and not because he (Bonner), I or anyone else are not experienced programmers and/or cause to be Brazilians, we will not able to compile and run the Sylverant!
I was just stating that I haven't documented the procedures for getting things up and running. Mainly because I'm not a fan of writing documentation at all. I wasn't trying to imply that you guys couldn't do it, I was just saying that I haven't documented the procedure.
I must remind you that the DC-Talk not only managed to compile and run the Sylverant, but also made many improvements on it! If you can, the DC-Talk can, then so can we, and you say that we will not get it quite arrogant of you!
Once again, my statement wasn't meant in any way to be arrogant. I was just stating fact. Also, DC-Talk has made exactly one modification to the standard Sylverant source code: modifying the /minlvl command to allow levels below the game enforced minimums (as schtserv does). Not exactly "many" improvements as you imply. Yes, they've contributed ideas and a lot of assistance in testing (not to mention the legit items list that K_I_R_E_E_K spent a lot of time on), but to say that they've heavily modified Sylverant is an outright lie. Also, note that I've helped DC-Talk out quite a bit in keeping their server up and running properly, and I actively post on their forums to help sort out bugs and such.
Independent Clan XBR or not to keep a server Phantasy Star Online V2 Dreamcast, I, the founder and administrator of the site and forum Dreamcast BR, keep a Sylverant server-based and hosted where I want, for he is licensed in Affero GPL v3, you can not stop, and you like it or not, many will do the same!
If you did not want anyone but you used Sylverant, do not make available for download, much less to license with a Free Software license, like the Affero GPL v3!
Well, I could remove all the source code, delete everything, and revoke any licenses to use the code (all my privileges as the sole copyright holder, regardless of the license). I don't and won't do that though. Why? Because I'm simply making a humble request that you don't fragment the community. Nowhere have I ever required it. Never will I. Why? Because its against the ideas of the Free Software movement. If you want to keep a server up regardless of my request, feel free. It doesn't hurt me in the least. The only thing it does is to make you look rude to ignore my humble request and insult me in the way you have without even understanding (or apparently trying to understand) my point at all.
