[locke]

An updated version of NiMUD 5 has been released with minor fixes to a cosmetic bug with colors. Also, the license has been updated. This license update retroactively affects all versions of NiMUD and The Isles OLC, and its derivative packages. I suggest users of ILAB OLC, ROMolc, Ivan's OLC, QuickMUD, Emlen and the like download this version to review the updates to the licensing requirements. It is unlikely there will be additional changes in the future.

Get it here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/show...roup_id=101074

AFFECTED SOFTWARE:

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dystopia_1.2.3.tar.gz
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greed-0.88d.tar.gz
greed-0.99.6.tar.gz
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iceydepths.tar.gz
Insanity-v02a.tgz
mom-envy.tar.gz
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oblivion.1.2.alpha.1.fix.tar.gz
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rogue2-1.tar.gz
rogue2.5b1.tar.gz
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rogue24b3.tar.gz
rogue25b3.tar.gz
sccodebase.tgz
sundermud-1.0.tar.gz
sundermud-2.1-a.tar.gz
sundermud-2.1.tar.gz
Tapestries.tar.gz
UE_0.82.tgz
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wurm2.7olc.tgz
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[Samson]

Folks should avail themselves of the information here: Compliance reminder if your MUD uses OLC

Locke is a code thief and has no valid claim to any of the material he's listed here, nor can his license be made retroactively applicable.

[locke]

Originally Posted by Samson Folks should avail themselves of the information here: Compliance reminder if your MUD uses OLC Locke is a code thief and has no valid claim to any of the material he's listed here, nor can his license be made retroactively applicable.

According to a bunch of anonymous posters to this forum, that is.. y'all come back now.. ya hear?!

From: Stanford Copyright & Fair Use - Copyright Ownership: Who Owns What?

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The U.S. Copyright Office allows buyers of exclusive and non-exclusive copyright rights to record the transfers in the U.S. Copyright Office. This helps to protect the buyers in case the original copyright owner later tries to transfer the same rights to another party.
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[Threshold]

Locke: I do not think we need 5+ threads about NiMUD all at the same time. Maybe keep it to 2? It is inconsiderate to blast the front page with constant NiMUD threads.

[Samson]

Originally Posted by locke According to a bunch of anonymous posters to this forum, that is.. y'all come back now.. ya hear?!

Also according to your own words in the linked thread. Nice try, care to play again?

[locke]

Blah, blah, blah...