> 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. I strongly disagree. The patch he would be selling would be chunks of C code. They can be applied to a circlemud. There is no way the owners of Diku and Circlemud could even attempt to say that the code you wrote falls under the circlemud licence. Why? Because it isnt circlemud. It's '<your name here>'s code' and you could write your own licence for it. I could take any section of Ebon Mists that I felt like (as long as it didnt contain any original circle code) as sell it for whatever I felt like, because that is my original code. As long as your muds contains even one line of original circle code the MUD falls under the licence, not any code you create and wish to sell. And I agree, people cheat on the circle license all the time, I wouldnt trust anyone to not do the same and sell any code I made. And as a side note... IMHO the circle licence is way too damn strict. It costs me a lot of money to run my mud, and it doesnt even allow for donations for upkeep of the site. All that does is discourage people from putting up a mud/site. Not to try and beat the system, but as I feel that restriction is unfair, here's an idea on how you can get donations for your site without them being donations. Sell maps of the mud, datafiles containing object stats, do what I intend to do and get a cool original (to avoid copyright violatoins) jpg or gif and go to a copy center and make and sell Tshirts... hell... sell pencils or sheets of looseleaf paper... all for a high price. Legally, you are selling a product, not accepting donations for a mud, and you are not violating the licence. It is a side business, and has nothing to do with asking for donations or asking to pay to play. Hades can feel the flames coming for this one but guess what? I dont care. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator of MudTech.com. Send an Email to M T tourach@cyber1.servtech.com for info on how you can run U E your mud or chat client on MudTech. D C Visit Ebon Mists MUD at ebonmists.roc.servtech.com 8888 H
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