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<LI><em>From</em>: "Matthew D. Fuller" <<A HREF="mailto:fullermd#futuresouth,com">fullermd#futuresouth,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:30:39 -0600</LI>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:39:33PM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Ben Greear remarked
>
> My personal opinion (and I have been living in a cave of my own
> construction for several years) is that text based MUDS are in
> a decline, and have been for years, even as the rest of the NET
> has expanded. Although I do not know the answer, I wonder if the
I think you'll have a lot of disagreement on this point, from me as well
as other people, but I'll save that flamewar for another time ;)
> huge number of forks in the MUD tree is part of this decline. Because
> advances are not shared back into the community, I believe much effort
> is wasted on the mundane, where as a GPL type license seems to keep
> branching to a minimum and maximize the collective efforts of many.
>
> However, from personal experience, the GPL is not a magic bullet. I
> have released Scry and it's client under the GPL for over a year now,
> and though there have been many downloads, and I know ppl are running
> the server, at least on their own machine to see how it works, I have
> had little in the way of patches offered from the field. On the other
> hand, many people do comment that they really do like that it's under
> the GPL, and several coders have joined my own server project and have
> contributed some useful code.
I think if we're talking about codebases that can be used commercially as
well as 'freely', the GPL becomes a problem itself. Requiring source
disclosure of all your changes is a burden if you're trying to use those
changes (new features! new things to do! new fun stuff!) to distinguish
yourself from 'the rest' and attract people to make a buck.
\begin{flamebait}
BSD-style licensing!
\end{flamebait}
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00263" HREF="msg00263.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00262" HREF="msg00262.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00280" HREF="msg00280.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00283" HREF="msg00283.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00319" HREF="msg00319.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
Matthew D. Fuller <a href="mailto:fullermd@futuresouth.com">fullermd@futuresouth.com</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 23:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00327" HREF="msg00327.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00349" HREF="msg00349.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00368" HREF="msg00368.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller@classic-games.com">gmiller@classic-games.com</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 18:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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