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KaVir:
His example was pretty extreme, but his point is quite valid: your continued claims that we can't know if something is ok until there's a court case is ridiculous.
Think about how many agreements you are a party to: rental/mortgage, credit cards, etc. You don't really claim that you don't have any idea of what your rights and obligations are just because you've never argued about any of those contracts in court, do you? Sure, some of the fine points might be debatable, but what we're discussing is not a fine point.
Just as a hobbyist mud is generally not operated with the intent to turn a profit, but you attack them too if they accept donations that don't pass some strange requirements that have nothing to do with the license, but are derived from an email from a single one of the authors many years after the codebase was released.
I believe that you're confusing gross revenue with profit. gross profit = revenue - cost of generating that revenue.
For an activity in which the primary activity is delivering bits to the "customer", bandwidth and server is clearly a direct cost. Please cite the relevant sections of GAAP, the UK equivalent, or some other authoritative source if you disagree.
Stilton
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