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/* ************************************************************************
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* Copyright (C) 1995 by Jeremy Elson *
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* All Rights Reserved *
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************************************************************************ */
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CircleMUD License
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CircleMUD was created by:
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Jeremy Elson
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Department of Computer Science
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Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
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jelson@circlemud.org
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CircleMUD is licensed software. This file contains the text of the CircleMUD
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license. If you wish to use the CircleMUD system in any way, or use any of
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its source code, you must read this license and are legally bound to comply
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with it.
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CircleMUD is a derivative work based on the DikuMUD system written by Hans
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Henrik Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian
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Hammer. DikuMUD is also licensed software; you are legally bound to comply
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with the original DikuMUD license as well as the CircleMUD license if you
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wish to use CircleMUD.
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Use of the CircleMUD code in any capacity implies that you have read,
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understood, and agreed to abide by the terms and conditions set down by this
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license and the DikuMUD license. If you use CircleMUD without complying with
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the license, you are breaking the law.
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Using CircleMUD legally is easy. In short, the license requires three things:
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1) You must not use CircleMUD to make money or be compensated in any way.
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2) You must give the authors credit for their work.
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3) You must comply with the DikuMUD license.
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That's it -- those are the main conditions set down by this license.
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Unfortunately, past experience has shown that many people are not willing
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to follow the spirit of the license, so the remainder of this document will
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clearly define those conditions in an attempt to prevent people from
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circumventing them.
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The first condition says that you must not use CircleMUD to make money in
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any way or be otherwise compensated. CircleMUD was developed in people's
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uncompensated spare time and was given to you free of charge, and you must
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not use it to make money. CircleMUD must not in any way be used to
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facilitate your acceptance of fees, donations, or other compensation.
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Examples include, but are not limited to the following:
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-- If you run CircleMUD, you must not require any type of fee or donation
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in exchange for being able to play CircleMUD. You must not solicit,
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offer or accept any kind of donation from your players in exchange for
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enhanced status in the game such as increased levels, character stats,
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gold, or equipment.
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-- You must not solicit or accept money or other donations in exchange for
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running CircleMUD. You must not accept money or other donations from
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your players for purposes such as hardware upgrades for running
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CircleMUD.
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-- You must not sell CircleMUD. You must not accept any type of fee in
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exchange for distributing or copying CircleMUD.
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-- If you are a CircleMUD administrator, You must not accept any type of
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reimbursement for money spent out of pocket for running CircleMUD, i.e.,
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for equipment expenses or fees incurred from service providers.
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The second part of the license states that you must give credit to the
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creators of CircleMUD. A great deal of work went into the creation of
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CircleMUD, and it was given to you completely free of charge; claiming that
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you wrote the MUD yourself is a slap in the face to everyone who worked to
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bring you a high quality product while asking for nothing but credit for
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their work in return.
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Specifically, the following are required:
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-- The text in the 'credits' file distributed with CircleMUD must be
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preserved. You may add your own credits to the file, but the existing
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text must not be removed, abridged, truncated, or changed in any way.
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This file must be displayed when the 'credits' command is used from
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within the MUD.
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-- The "CIRCLEMUD" help entry must be maintained intact and unchanged, and
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displayed in its entirety when the 'help circlemud' command is used.
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-- The login sequence must contain the names of the DikuMUD and CircleMUD
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creators. The 'login sequence' is defined as the text seen by players
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between the time they connect to the MUD and when they start to play
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the game itself.
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-- This license must be distributed AS IS with all copies or portions of
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the CircleMUD that you distribute, if any, including works derived from
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CircleMUD.
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-- You must not remove, change, or modify any notices of copyright,
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licensing or authorship found in any CircleMUD source code files.
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-- Claims that any of the above requirements are inapplicable to a particular
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MUD for reasons such as "our MUD is totally rewritten" or similar are
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completely invalid. If you can write a MUD completely from scratch then
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you are encouraged to do so by all means, but use of any part of the
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CircleMUD or DikuMUD source code requires that their respective licenses
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be followed, including the crediting requirements.
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The third part of the license simply states that you must comply with the
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DikuMUD license. This is required because CircleMUD is a DikuMUD derivative.
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The DikuMUD license is included below.
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You are allowed to use, modify and redistribute all CircleMUD source code
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and documentation as long as such use does not violate any of the rules
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set down by this license.
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--Jeremy Elson
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CircleMUD 3 -- Copyright (C) 1994-2001, The CircleMUD Group
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Other portions copyright by authors as noted in ChangeLog and source code.
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===========================================================================
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Everything below this line is the original, unmodified DikuMUD license.
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You must comply with the CircleMUD license above, as well as the DikuMUD
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license below.
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/* ************************************************************************
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* Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 *
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* All Rights Reserved *
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************************************************************************* */
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DikuMud License
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Program & Concept created by
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Sebastian Hammer
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Prss. Maries Alle 15, 1
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1908 Frb. C.
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DENMARK
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(email quinn@freja.diku.dk)
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Michael Seifert
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Nr. Soeg. 37C, 1, doer 3
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1370 Copenhagen K.
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DENMARK
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(email seifert@freja.diku.dk)
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Hans Henrik St{rfeldt
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Langs} 19
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3500 V{rl|se
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DENMARK
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(email bombman@freja.diku.dk)
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Tom Madsen
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R|de Mellemvej 94B, 64
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2300 Copenhagen S.
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DENMARK
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(email noop@freja.diku.dk)
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Katja Nyboe
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Kildeg}rdsvej 2
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2900 Hellerup
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31 62 82 84
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DENMARK
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(email katz@freja.diku.dk)
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This document contains the rules by which you can use, alter or publish
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parts of DikuMud. DikuMud has been created by the above five listed persons
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in their spare time, at DIKU (Computer Science Instutute at Copenhagen
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University). You are legally bound to follow the rules described in this
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document.
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Rules:
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!! DikuMud is NOT Public Domain, shareware, careware or the like !!
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You may under no circumstances make profit on *ANY* part of DikuMud in
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any possible way. You may under no circumstances charge money for
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distributing any part of dikumud - this includes the usual $5 charge
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for "sending the disk" or "just for the disk" etc.
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By breaking these rules you violate the agreement between us and the
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University, and hence will be sued.
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You may not remove any copyright notices from any of the documents or
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sources given to you.
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This license must *always* be included "as is" if you copy or give
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away any part of DikuMud (which is to be done as described in this
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document).
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If you publish *any* part of dikumud, we as creators must appear in the
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article, and the article must be clearly copyrighted subject to this
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license. Before publishing you must first send us a message, by
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snail-mail or e-mail, and inform us what, where and when you are
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publishing (remember to include your address, name etc.)
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If you wish to setup a version of DikuMud on any computer system, you
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must send us a message , by snail-mail or e-mail, and inform us where
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and when you are running the game. (remember to include
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your address, name etc.)
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Any running version of DikuMud must include our names in the login
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sequence. Furthermore the "credits" command shall always cointain
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our name, addresses, and a notice which states we have created DikuMud.
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You are allowed to alter DikuMud, source and documentation as long as
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you do not violate any of the above stated rules.
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Regards,
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The DikuMud Group
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Note:
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We hope you will enjoy DikuMud, and encourage you to send us any reports
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on bugs (when you find 'it'). Remember that we are all using our spare
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time to write and improve DikuMud, bugs, etc. - and changes will take their
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time. We have so far put extremely many programming hours into this project.
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If you make any major improvements on DikuMud we would be happy to
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hear from you. As you will naturally honor the above rules, you will receive
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new updates and improvements made to the game.
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