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From: "Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard Lindsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:39
Subject: Re: Question about ROM 2.4 b6 credits
> I forgot I lost my documentation, I just remeber reading something about,
> with in a standard 24 screen telnet window you have to beable to see his
> name.
The ROM, DIKU & Merc licenses for those who have lost or forgotten them:
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rom.licence:
In compiling this code, you have agreed to the following restrictions on
any operating version of ROM code:
1) following all guidelines in the diku license (contained in the file
license.doc)
2) following all guidelines in the Merc license (contained in the file
license.txt)
3) The login message to your mud must contain a notice that it is based
on ROM 2.4 beta, copyright 1993 - 1996 Russ Taylor. The help files
must include a ROM entry, readable by all players, and unaltered
from the file included with the source code, except as authorized
by the ROM authors. The login screen means the screen you see when
you first connect, excepting one-line "Do you have color?" messages,
and the readable by all players means it must be viewable by both
new and old characters on a 24-line terminal with no scrollback.
To make it more clear, you cannot put the credits on the top of
a 24-line ascii graphic, as this would cause the credits to
scroll off. In any case, final decision on compliance/non-compliance
with this requirement is left soley to the judgement of the ROM
consortium.
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.
5) Any use of the term Rivers of Mud remains the exclusive right of
Russ Taylor, this includes the sole right to release future versions
of ROM source code, and the title Rivers of Mud and ROM as pertains to
a mud. Names such as John's ROM, AnotherROM, and JustaROM are also
forbidden. Permission to use the name Rivers of Mud has been granted
to Zump, the current ROM implementer, his mud will remain the only one
with that privilige. As a coder, you have full rights to release your
own derivatives of the ROM code, provided they follow the restrictions of
this license, contain all appropriate README and credits files, and are
properly labelled as being derivatives of the ROM 2.4 code (just as ROM
is itself a derivative of Gamma 0.0 and Merc 2.1 code).
6) Anyone not wishing to follow terms of the ROM license shall be obligated
to delete all copies of this code in their possession. This includes,
but
is not limited to, failure to display full credits for ROM, Merc, and
Diku.
7) Collaboration with known Diku, Merc, or ROM license violators on any
ROM code project is strictly forbidden without written permission from
the ROM consortium (Russ Taylor, Gabrielle Taylor, and Brian Moore).
This list includes, but is not limited to, Mike Krause (Vryce),
and any other administrators involved in the mud Medievia.
(In English, this means that Alander is the only one allowed to release
ROM source code, as apposed to ROM derived source code, and that you
cannot call your mud ROM even though it uses ROM code. You also aren't
allowed to deal with code thieves)
If you have any questions about this license, please send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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license.doc (Diku):
/* ************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 *
* All Rights Reserved *
************************************************************************* */
DikuMud License
Program & Concept created by
Sebastian Hammer
Prss. Maries Alle 15, 1
1908 Frb. C.
DENMARK
(email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Michael Seifert
Nr. Soeg. 37C, 1, doer 3
1370 Copenhagen K.
DENMARK
(email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hans Henrik St{rfeldt
Langs} 19
3500 V{rl|se
DENMARK
(email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tom Madsen
R|de Mellemvej 94B, 64
2300 Copenhagen S.
DENMARK
(email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Katja Nyboe
Kildeg}rdsvej 2
2900 Hellerup
31 62 82 84
DENMARK
(email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This document contains the rules by which you can use, alter or publish
parts of DikuMud. DikuMud has been created by the above five listed persons
in their spare time, at DIKU (Computer Science Instutute at Copenhagen
University). You are legally bound to follow the rules described in this
document.
Rules:
!! DikuMud is NOT Public Domain, shareware, careware or the like !!
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.
You may not remove any copyright notices from any of the documents or
sources given to you.
This license must *always* be included "as is" if you copy or give
away any part of DikuMud (which is to be done as described in this
document).
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.)
If you wish to setup a version of DikuMud on any computer system, you
must send us a message , by snail-mail or e-mail, and inform us where
and when you are running the game. (remember to include
your address, name etc.)
Any running version of DikuMud must include our names in the login
sequence. Furthermore the "credits" command shall always cointain
our name, addresses, and a notice which states we have created DikuMud.
You are allowed to alter DikuMud, source and documentation as long as
you do not violate any of the above stated rules.
Regards,
The DikuMud Group
Note:
We hope you will enjoy DikuMud, and encourage you to send us any reports
on bugs (when you find 'it'). Remember that we are all using our spare
time to write and improve DikuMud, bugs, etc. - and changes will take their
time. We have so far put extremely many programming hours into this project.
If you make any major improvements on DikuMud we would be happy to
hear from you. As you will naturally honor the above rules, you will receive
new updates and improvements made to the game.
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license.txt (Merc):
Merc Release 2.1
Sunday 01 August 1993
Furey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hatchet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=== Copyright and License Terms
Diku Mud is copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Michael Seifert,
Hans Henrik St{rfeldt, Tom Madsen, and Katja Nyboe. Their license agreement
is in the file 'license.doc'.
Merc Diku Mud is a derivative of the original Diku Mud and is subject to
their
copyright and license agreement. Merc Diku Mud contains substantial
enhancements to Diku Mud. These enhancements are copyright 1992, 1993 by
Michael Chastain, Michael Quan, and Mitchell Tse.
In order to use Merc you must follow the Diku license and our license. The
exact terms of the Diku license are in the file 'license.doc'. A summary of
these terms is:
-- 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.
Our license terms are:
-- Copyrights must remain in original source.
-- 'Help merc' must report our help text, as shipped.
Notice that our license terms don't include keeping our names in the login
sequence. If you want to keep a line in there referring to Merc, or
referring
to us by name (Furey, Hatchet, and Kahn), we'd appreciate that, but we don't
require it. But you must keep the original Diku authors in the login
sequence.
If you do not follow these license terms, we will ask you to comply. If
that
doesn't work, then we will talk to your system administrators (not about
your
running a mud, but on the grounds that you're using our copyrighted software
without permission).
These are very generous terms for any software. If you don't want to accept
them, feel free to run some other software, or write your own.
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