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I don't know much about copyright laws. But this is what I see:
Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 7 look amost exactily the same.
So does MS Word and Word Perfect, and Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop.
If you are building your own mud from scratch, not using their code and not trying to duplicate their code but having a similar feel at the end you shouldn't have any problems.
From what I've seen its a pretty good idea anyways to make your mud similar (command / look-feel wise) to the most common mud types out there.
This doesn't have to do with copyright, if you are coding a mud from scratch you may want to browse through the other mu*s out there to get some more ideas.
Just like if you wanted to make a Sci-Fi mud it probably would be a good idea to read as much about the genre as possible. Not just L. Ron Hubbard but Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Neil Stephenson.
In the long run it could give you a few more ideas outside of ROM.
*shrug*
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