"Cyan has decided to give make MystOnline available to the fans by releasing the source code for the servers, client and tools for MystOnline as an open source project," said Cyan CEO Tony Fryman to TXT. "We will also host a data server with the data for MystOnline."

Fryman noted that the open source release will rolled out in stages, but that the process should begin shortly. Cyan will continue to run a single free server of the original game.

"This is a bit scary for Cyan because this is an area that we have never gone before, to let a product freely roam in the wild," added Fryman. "But we've poured so much into UruLive, and it has touched so many, that we could not just let it whither and die."