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Not that I believe for a second that Medievia isn't a derivative, but one has to wonder what they gain from not acknowledging the contributions of the creators. Medievia V is clearly based on Medievia IV, which was shown to be a DIKU derivative. (Not even Team Vryce has claimed that they did a clean-room implementation. They only claim that Medievia V has a lot more code and therefore the DIKU contribution is not important, oblivious to all legal definitions of a derivative work.)
It doesn't hurt to say "And thanks to... ... for providing a free tool which eventually grew into Medievia V.", include them in the credits as the DIKU license stipulates, and otherwise act like decent human beings, rather than bite the hand that feeds (*) them in an arrogant false "history".
(*): I almost wrote "fed", but Medievia wouldn't be where it is now without the foundation it used.
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