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Mitchell M. Tse  
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 More options Jul 30 1995, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: hatc...@crl.com (Mitchell M. Tse)
Date: 1995/07/30
Subject: Re: Medievia
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In article <3vfek7$...@panix2.panix.com>, Pete <pe...@panix.com> wrote:
>Mitchell M. Tse (hatc...@crl.com) wrote:

>: Just to satisfy you, I shall provide you with not one, but three proofs.
>: 1. An immortal on Medievia told me it's a Diku mud to my face when I had
>: visited them.

>    Depends on if the person has seen the code or not.

Why, yes, I have seen the code, when we released it, and believe me, when
Medievia started, it was pretty much stock Merc, and no matter what state
it is in now, it's just stripping and replacing of stock code, in other
words, it was based on the original Merc and hence Diku.  

Dude, you can't take a 100 line program from someone and each week, change
1 line of program, and after 100 weeks, even when the whole program has
been rewritten, call this your own creation.  It's still BASED on the
original program.

>: 2. Medievia has midgaard and other areas from Diku and Merc.  If you have
>: ANY part of Merc or Diku, then you are Merc and/or Diku based.

>    If I have a public domain area that merc/diku also uses, I am
>    merc/diku based?

No, but Midgaard isn't just a public domain area, it's an area that came
with the original DikuMud.  And even though they may have since junked
it, they started with it.

>: 3. Get onto the mud and type 'help merc'.  If you get a nice page giving
>: credits and some note forbidding users from deleting this file or face
>: a lawsuit, you're looking at a Merc and hence Diku Mud.

>    If I decide to add 'help merc' to my mud written from scratch im
>a 'Merc and hence a Diku Mud'?

If you're quoting the exact words written in the 'help merc' entry,
you're either
1. using part of Merc Mud (read the licenses, note it says you
can't make money on any PART of the mud) or
2. you're plagiarizing or
3. quoting it, with appropriate annotation.

Since I saw no direct quotation with no appropriate annotation, I have
to assume (1) or (2).  Same would go for you.

> I think the license suffers the same ambiguity problem as this post.

And I feel your post shares the same sentiments with Vryce's intentions:
Exploitation

Hatchet of Merc/Envy Muds


 
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