[Kalcor]

I didn't read the entire post but the point seemed to be that open sourcing SA-MP would make it more difficult for it to be used as a recruitment tool for terrorists. I've never seen any evidence that it has been used in that way and don't see why open source would make any difference. I'm sure people troll a lot in the chat and try to stir other people up.

SA-MP doesn't run any servers or have any control over who can play. This was intentional. I designed it how I would have wanted it where you're free to do what you want. You can download free software to run your own online chat servers, for example. SA-MP does have control over the server lists that you can access through the client. I see the server lists, the forum, and the main website as being seperate from the actual software since you don't really require those to play SA-MP. There are some extra rules for getting servers on the lists. Servers breaking the server list rules have been blocked in the past. It never stopped them actually running the server.

I have said that SA-MP would be open sourced eventually. There would be no reason to keep the source closed. The question has been when is a good time to do it. The fear with open sourcing previously has been that with the popularity of the mod, SA-MP could branch in to several forks and the community would be split between them and it would die due to people not having a central meeting place to get new servers/communities off the ground.

So anyway, if you have evidence of terrorists, it's the same deal online as offline: report it to law enforcement. Use their website or call them. I'd offer to help but I don't have a couple of spare M16's.