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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by mindcrime on Thursday April 14, 2016 @07:37PM (#11501085)
Strictly speaking, "Fields of Endeavor" restrictions violate the OSD.

However, my guess (and that's all it is) is that in this case, the authors aren't actually interested in enforcing such a restriction, but rather added the "educational use only" line as part of an attempt to avoid any liability for subsequent use of the code.

Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by drivers99 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @09:02PM (#11501402)
I had an acquaintance who was sued by Blizzard under the DMCA for creating a game server for StarCraft. That was under Vivendi which they are no longer a part of, so maybe it's different now, but I would not trust them myself.

https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd

Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by chc on Thursday April 14, 2016 @09:57PM (#11501577)
The people mindcrime was talking about trusting are the creators of Nostalrius, not Blizzard — though of course Blizzard will threaten you for publicly running this program just like they did Nostalrius.