I have much respect for you because of my days on duris and basternae. If
you have a problem with my license I feel that it is an informed opinion
and worth loking into rather than all these flames being thrown arround. I
will rewrite my license. Here is the new license.
Please put my name in the credits. Thas it just one line in the credits I
think you can spare that and please email me if you use it so I can see how
it works with your mud.
Kyle Goodwin
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From: Fafhrd <fafhrd@LINKMASTER.NET>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: [RELEASE] Wilderness/ASCII Mapping System
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 8:43 PM
>> PS: The following part of your 'license agreement' is very unreasonable.
>>
>> > 3) You must credit me on the screen displayed when a user first
connects
>> > to whatever mud this code or the ideas within it are used on.
>>
>Yes, it is unreasonable, but not for particularily for the reasons you
>describe. The unreasonable part is the last little bit, specifically
>'or the ideas within it are used'. The reason this is unreasonable is
>as follows:
> - Ideas are aplenty, and to be honest, I've seen this idea (with
> similar implementation) two or three times before at the least.
> - If I look at your code and go 'oh, hey, that's a good idea, but
> it needs to be changed', and proceed to write everything from
> scratch according to my new ideas (which may have been based off
> of your idea, or even the idea of wilderness in general), then
> a) I'm not using any of your code, and b) I'm using an idea that
> isn't yours primarily anyway, so at most, you'd get a mention in
> 'credits'.
I also take some offense at that aspect of the license as written, being
as how I wrote the system for Duris (at the time, one of only 3 known), and
am now expanding upon it to the 1000th degree within a circle base.
Fafhrd
Former lead coder of Duris
Current license holder of Basternae (although not involved)
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