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Kylotan · 07-29-2010, 12:56 PM

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.

07-29-2010, 12:56 PM	#32
Kylotan Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK Home MUD: Abattoir (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Jellybean (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Dark Chambers (Merc) Posts: 174	Re: KaViR is a cyberbully 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.