[Cana]

I quote this post, the same is for me...

Could you not just host the files for the shard on the forums somewhere so that everyone could download it ? How big is it ?
That way any time down the line someone could restart it or at least have a piece of what we were all apart of ? (sentimental sorta thing)

This game is so old and has so little life left in it that I don't see why sharing the entire shard with the players would be a problem.
Why would you not want to further, better & help out the Uo community that is struggling to survive, that we all once loved.

There is one problem with putting the whole package out there. No single person has complete authority over it all. A lot of people have pitched in over the years. Some more and some less, but all those people have the right to publish their own code, not anyone else's. Some of these people aren't around anymore and it's impossible to get everyone's permission for publishing the whole package. It's better to just publish the code you've worked on than assume there'll be no problems publishing someone else's code. It's less problems for everyone just in case someone has a problem with their work being published. That's why everyone is just publishing the things they did.