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 *  _______  _        ______            _______  _______           ______   *
 * (  ____ \( \      (  __  \ |\     /|(  ___  )(       )|\     /|(  __  \  *
 * | (    \/| (      | (  \  )| )   ( || (   ) || () () || )   ( || (  \  ) *
 * | (__    | |      | |   ) || (___) || (___) || || || || |   | || |   ) | *
 * |  __)   | |      | |   | ||  ___  ||  ___  || |(_)| || |   | || |   | | *
 * | (      | |      | |   ) || (   ) || (   ) || |   | || |   | || |   ) | *
 * | (____/\| (____/\| (__/  )| )   ( || )   ( || )   ( || (___) || (__/  ) *
 * (_______/(_______/(______/ |/     \||/     \||/     \|(_______)(______/  *
 ****************************************************************************
 *      EldhaMUD2.2.5 Copyright 2003-2008 by Robert Powell (The_Fury)       *
 ***************************************************************************/
 
               Eldhamud 2.2.5 code release: Licience Agreement
                   === Copyright and License Terms ===

Diku Mud is copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Michael Seifert,
Hans Henrik Straefeldt, Tom Madsen, and Katja Nyboe.  SEE:'./DIKU/license.diku'.

Merc Diku Mud is a derivative of the original Diku Mud.  Merc Diku Mud contains
substantial enhancements to Diku Mud.  These enhancements are copyright 1992,
1993 by Michael Chastain, Michael Quan, and Mitchell Tse. SEE:'./MERC/license.merc'.

SMAUG is a derivative of the version 2.1 distribution of Merc Diku Mud. SMAUG 1.4 
(C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998  by Derek Snider  SMAUG code team: Thoric, Altrag, 
Blodkai, Narn, Haus, Scryn, Rennard, Swordbearer, Gorog, Grishnakh, Nivek, 
Tricops and Fireblade. SEE:'./SMAUG/license.txt

EldhaMUD is copyright (C) 2003-2008 by Robert Powell (The_Fury) Eldhamud is
a derivitive work of Diku, Merc and Smaug, with substancial additions of code
from various snippet authors and original code work by The_Fury. 


DISCLAIMER:
This software is NOT public domain, shareware, careware or anything simular to 
these things. This software is licensed under the Diku Mud License, with extentions
and enhancements by the Merc, Smaug and Eldhamud development teams. To use this 
software you agree to be bound by the limitations outlined in this legally binding
license document as well as the Diku/Merc/Smaug licenses.

COPYRIGHT: All copyright notices must remain intact and unmodified in all source
and header files. You may remove, edit or replace the ascii art to suit your own
purpose unless otheways stipulated in individual source files.


LOGIN: The login sequence needs to contain the copyright information of Diku, Merc
and Smaug development teams as well as the Eldhamud copyright notice. For the sake
of claity the exact notice has been included here and must be clearly visible in 
its entirety to all who login to the server.

EldhaMUD V2 Code and Design by: Robert Powell (The_Fury)
SMAUG code by: Thoric (Derek Snider) with Altrag, Blodkai, Haus, Narn,
Scryn, Swordbearer, Tricops, Gorog, Rennard, Grishnakh, Fireblade and Nivek.
MERC 2.1 code by: Hatchet, Furey and Khan. 
DikuMUD code by: Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert 
and Sebastian Hammer.


PROFIT: 
You may under NO circumstances receive MONEY in the course of opperating
a game server based on this code. This includes but is not limited to asking for
donations via your games website to cover server costs, charging of players for 
access, or offering ingame advantages for payments made for other services like 
game merchandise.

REDISTRIBUTION: 
You may not redistribute the code in part or in full without express permission 
from the copyright holder (The_Fury) This includes but is not limited to posting 
for download on code and snippet sites, news sites or any other medium. You may 
not charge for access to the code where permission has been granted, this includes 
charges for CD media or access to the website hosting the files. 

DERIVITIVE WORKS:
Derivitive works created from this work must be licienced under the EXACT terms 
of this licience, in part, that the code cannot be used to earn revenue, wages
or donations, and that you cannot redistribute the code without first seeking 
permision to do so.

CREDIT:
The credit command needs to be accessable to any level 1 character and should
contain the credit information as shipped. Help Diku, Help Merc, Help Smaug and
Help Eldhamud also need to be accessable to all level 1 characters.

LICENCE:
You are granted licence to use this software on the provision that you fullfil the
requirements of the Diku, Merc, Smaug licences as well as the items listed above.