Ground Zero Enterprises wrote: > > I was just curious about something so I re-read the license for both > Circle and Diku mud. Hypothetically, would it be a license violation to > charge someone for a patch to CircleMUD if all of the code was written by > you? Not that anyone would necesarrily pay, I just was wondering if its > legal or not. > > ThANKS, > cHRIS Chris, First, I appreciate your label of "OFF TOPIC" in the subject. I think that's a great idea and I'll try to stick with that convention in the future. I hope others will do the same! :) Now for the question itself. You probably shouldn't be broadcasting license questions to the list at large. The only people who can definitively answer licensing questions are the authors of the software. If they all say "yes", it's definitely OK. If even one author says "no", you're out of luck. If you don't want to take a chance that they'll say "no", pay a lawyer to find out if it would be OK. My guess - and this is ONLY a guess, ask the authors for the real answer - is that since the Circle license prohibits charging fees to distribute Circle, and since Circle add-ons are derived works of Circle, you can't charge others for code add-ons to Circle; your code would fall under the Circle license. And BTW, if the administrators of a MUD/MUD site don't respect the intellectual property rights of the Circle/DIKU team, they probably won't respect your rights either. Just food for thought, before you go out there and try to sell Circle-related software. Hypothetically speaking, of course. -- [----------------------------------------------------------------------] [----- Jack Wilson ------- mailto:deejay@cu-online.com ----------------] [- Home page: http://www.cu-online.com/~deejay/ -----------------------] [----------------------------------------------------------------------]
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