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Valg · 07-05-2005, 02:18 PM

Many common features like the ones you're discussing are available from multiple authors. I've never used a non-Carrion-Fields snippet (our code is a ROM derivative (*), but after 11 years of modification it's very unlikely that a system developed for another MUD would "plug in" nicely), but I'd imagine that even if you wrote a snippet with the same goal (e.g. key holders), no one would doubt your authorship since you'd inevitably do things a little differently for anything complex enough to be worth posting about. It's to the community's advantage if multiple solutions to one problem are available-- your keyring snippet might work better than Joe's for a particular MUD.

(*): I'm using the legal definition here, not the crazy Medievia perversion of it.

07-05-2005, 02:18 PM	#2
Valg Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Carrion Fields Posts: 643	Many common features like the ones you're discussing are available from multiple authors. I've never used a non-Carrion-Fields snippet (our code is a ROM derivative (), but after 11 years of modification it's very unlikely that a system developed for another MUD would "plug in" nicely), but I'd imagine that even if you wrote a snippet with the same goal (e.g. key holders), no one would doubt your authorship since you'd inevitably do things a little differently for anything complex enough to be worth posting about. It's to the community's advantage if multiple solutions to one problem are available-- your keyring snippet might work better than Joe's for a particular MUD. (): I'm using the legal definition here, not the crazy Medievia perversion of it.