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thaumasiotes on April 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closur...

What copyright claim can Blizzard articulate against the nostalrius source code?

unlinker on April 15, 2016 [–]

The source code and the database required to make it work contains the names of all spells, instances, quests and their briefings, NPCs...

Maybe they could even claim patents on the protocol? Who knows.

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