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If they used official closed source code, there is some legal issues, if challenged, but if they reverse engineered the server code then it’s a lot more leeway (similar to emulators). Most private servers I’m familiar with are reverse engineered, though, and since the assets and such are generally client side, nothing the server hosts is illegal. Though again, I don’t even think that should be illegal but c’est la vie; it’s copyrighted code. Edit: former and latter are two different things, and I need to be more careful when I change my sentence structure after writing it.