[Lanthum]

That was funny! Tho I can't help but think it was an act for the camera. Still very funny tho!

I knew a person that acted like that while driving ...

[Kylotan]

Wow, are we still arguing about the DIKU license in 2010? No wonder the MUD world is so stagnant.

NiMUD was clearly a DIKU derivative and it's worrying to think that someone who was capable of programming a decade ago is capable of self-delusion 10 years on. It's a shame because I seem to remember that the changes in NiMUD were interesting and good and there's no need to side-step the licence for people to recognise that. Of course, all those same code changes could have been applied to a completely fresh code base written from scratch in a few weeks these days, so it is bizarre that Locke is so attached to them.

[Darren Brimhall]

Being a total novice, I have these questions to ask;
what is DikuMUD?
what's the licening for it?
and how easy is it to program with?

Darren Brimhall

[Kylotan]

Diku MUD is a mud codebase from which many other codebases were derived - see Wikipedia.

The license for it is included in the download, but it essentially requires that you maintain the original credits, make 'no profit', and altered copies must be distributed under the same terms. In practice these first two clauses, despite being simple enough that 99% of people can follow them easily, have generally been flaunted by a small minority, leading to debates that still rage 20 years after Diku was released.

Diku is fairly easy to program with, although if you really want to work with a Diku I would recommend one of the successors which have many bug fixes and new features. Perhaps someone else can give you a firmer recommendation.

Personally I would prefer to program a MUD from scratch in a different language these days - Moores Law means that we have almost 10,000x more CPU power these days compared to when DikuMud was released, so there's no need to code glorified telnet servers in C any more. But that's an issue for the Coding subforum.

[rudeboyrave]

KaVir is a gentleman and a scholar .

[Newworlds]

Originally Posted by rudeboyrave KaVir is a gentleman and a scholar .

Coming from Rude Boy Rave, that's saying something!

FYI, RBR, this thread is old and silly.

[scandum]

KaVir has an obsessive compulsive personality disorder, where as Locke is borderline schizophrenic. It's not easy being the only sane person around.

[Darren Brimhall]

Originally Posted by scandum KaVir has an obsessive compulsive personality disorder, where as Locke is borderline schizophrenic. It's not easy being the only sane person around.

Well, at least there's somebody still around that is.

Darren Brimhall

[prof1515]

Originally Posted by scandum ...Locke is borderline schizophrenic.

Borderline? Institutions are filled with people who don't have as good a claim as Locke does.

[Kaz]

YMMV, but this is the most entertaining thread ever to have graced these forums. Thanks for the necro.