Merc Release 2.2 Wednesday 24 November 1993 Kahn Hatchet === 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.