Thanks Dominic. I feel "enlightened".
sar·casm Pronunciation Key (särkzm) n. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule. The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit1. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: Re: Incredible violation of trust and ethics, what should I do? > > 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/ > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
