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by rawbot 689 days ago
It's irrelevant whether the costs are trivial. Once developers and publishers release the server binaries or API-spec, fans can invest as much time and money as they want to replicate it. They don't need to reverse-engineer it.
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What happens if the game developer has licensed 3rd party tools and libraries which the server software depends on and they don’t have the right to include these?
Those shouldn't be included, of course. If the server has them too tied up to be decoupled, then I guess someone needs to unscramble the spaghetti before serving it