RSPS server sources are all from leaks; you can decompile/reflect the client all you want but the server bits (let alone sources) were never distributed. Jagex

RSPS server sources are all from leaks; you can decompile/reflect the client all you want but the server bits (let alone sources) were never distributed. Jagex has used this fact to go after RSPSes. It's not totally clear from the post, but it sounds like this is different in that Riot is just straight-up serving all the assets they need? I can see how that'd lead the project developers to think they're in the clear. It seems like a lot of people who get involved in fan projects are unfortunately naive about both the technical legality of what they're doing and how eager the company will be to stick it to them. From my perspective having done RSPS things, it's absolutely insane to have not operated from the beginning assuming that adversaries wouldn't do everything possible to dox you and ruin your life. You need to be able to laugh at threats like this if the goal is a long-lived project, though that presumes an adversarial relationship with the devs. I guess my point is that non-adversarial relationships with projects of this sort are really rare and that assuming this was fine strikes me as questionable at best. Even if you do think you have some sort of fair-use defense, you should expect to have fun experiencing legal-system process-as-punishment for a couple of years.