I just couldn't help enlightening cluebies.. On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Jeremy Hill wrote:
> No. > > Diku license: > > -- No resale or operation for profit. > -- Original author's names must appear in login sequence. > -- The 'credits' command must report original authors. > -- You must notify the Diku creators that you are operating a Diku mud. > > http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html > #1. Your above points do not conflict with #1-9 of the above url. > Hell, read the first line of the Diku Rules: > > !! DikuMud is NOT Public Domain, shareware, careware or the like !! Public domain and shareware are _not_ Open Source. > Also: > > You may under no circumstances make profit on *ANY* part of DikuMud in > any possible way. You may under no circumstances charge money for > distributing any part of dikumud - this includes the usual $5 charge > for "sending the disk" or "just for the disk" etc. > By breaking these rules you violate the agreement between us and the > University, and hence will be sued. Quote chapter and verse of where this conflicts with the OSD. > Other "violations: > > If you publish *any* part of dikumud, we as creators must appear in the > article, and the article must be clearly copyrighted subject to this > license. Before publishing you must first send us a message, by > snail-mail or e-mail, and inform us what, where and when you are > publishing (remember to include your address, name etc.) What's wrong with "Give credit where credit due?" > Hell, OSD log 1.5: > *1.5 allow "reasonable reproduction cost" to meet GPL terms. > > Diku License explicitly forbids this. 1.5 does not _require_ a reasonable reproduction cost. It states that you _may_ (but do not HAVE TO) charge a reasonable reproduction cost. > Rom license: > > 4) Before opening a ROM-based mud, you must send email to the author > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), so that I can keep track of sites for > future code releases. > > While this isn't a "violation" per se, how often do you see "Before using this > newest Linux Kernel you MUST e-mail Linux Torvalds."? Although he'd be perfectly within his rights to ask for such.. The success of such an endeavour, is questionable though. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/
