Well, to be fair, it's not really the DIKU people who insist. MUDs can basically violate the DIKU license to their heart's content with no worry about legal action.
As Medevia shows, it's possible to openly violate the license and still be very successful as the DIKU license holders have very little actual interest or means to enforce their license. It's largely people who have no direct interest in the DIKU license (like me and Kavir) that you'll **** off. You'll get flamed and possibly banned from a couple mud boards but in the end it doesn't need to have a big effect on your mud.
I'm certainly not condoning violating licenses as I'm a complete stickler for the rules but realistically it has little negative consequence.
--matt
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