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EQ2 packet collector uses code I wrote...
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:10 am
by skandragon
and did not release. Can the author please contact me? I gave the code to one person, and that one person was asked to not release it further. I'm a little upset it seems to have spread.
However, I don't mind that it is used for this project. I would like to sync up and share the wealth, not have two code bases.
I can provide excerpts from my code base should there be doubts... Can we re-merge this into one data gathering project, rather than two?
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:57 am
by alfa
/joke Yeah and EQ2Offi use my code, they have to give me official programm...
1 You are on DB forum here
2 For sure main dev contact you soon
3 How you know this is YOUR code ? EQ2 packet collector src are not release.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:11 am
by skandragon
Stuffing the code into a debugger, I see the strings the program might print out. It uses many of the same strings as my code did -- and since I wrote them, I know them.
Even the initial message, Success!, and so on are literally from my code. It also uses the same method (and the same potential error strings) along the way.
Trust me, it's my code.
I'm not seriously annoyed it's used here -- and I'm glad the code is not released, since I never wished it to be so -- but I also see it decodes more than my code did, so I'd like to re-sync up and have one, not two, decoders.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:44 pm
by LethalEncounter
Yes, it does use code that skandragon wrote. I knew that he didn't want the source released (which is why the source was never released) but apparently I was under the mistaken impression that the binary was fine. Sorry about the mix up. I will be happy to share my changes with you.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:06 pm
by skandragon
I did not realize that you were the same person I gave the code to btw. Silly, lack-of-sleep me.
In any case, merging the code back would be good for everyone, as we have more than one person working on the stuff then. I'd eventually like to be able to understand all the opcodes the server sends, and decode them to the file, along with the raw format (aka hex dump.)
My concern re the binary being released is that I appear to be the first one to use this method, and I would rather not have the powers that be find a way around it. It would be rather easy to do that.