The majority of this software was written by Stephen F. White and is covered under the GNU GPL. See the file "COPYING" for details. The database layer (dbmchunk.c, cache.c, db_setup.h, db_config.h) is (c) 1992 Marcus J. Ranum, and was written by him. Portions of the network code (netio.c, serverio.c, playerio.c) were written by the following people, and are protected by the following copyright. Copyright (c) 1989-1993 by David Applegate, James Aspnes, Timothy Freeman, and Bennet Yee This material was developed by the above-mentioned authors. Permission to copy this software, to redistribute it, and to use it for any purpose is granted, subject to the following restrictions and understandings. 1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice in full. 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return to the above-mentioned authors any improvements or extensions that they make, so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this software. 3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards of acknowledging credit in academic research. In addition, the text 'COOLMUD created by Stephen White.' must appear in all login screens. 4. The authors have made no warrantee or representation that the operation of this software will be error-free, and the authors are under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise. 5. In conjunction with products arising from the use of this material, there shall be no use of the names of the authors, of Carnegie-Mellon University, or the University of Waterloo, nor of any adaptation thereof in any advertising, promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent from the authors, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Waterloo in each case, other than that specified in paragraph 3.