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No one is suggesting that a profit be made from DIKU. That's the entire point of this thread: It's quite possible to take money and simply not show a profit.
The license says what the license says. No more and no less. Some people seem to think it SHOULD say other things but certain people are also living in fantasyland.
The very reason we have written licenses and written contracts are because just relying on the intentions of the licensor or licensee is inherently unfair to one side or another. Contracts exist to ensure that both sides of an agreement are working with the same data and the same rules. Expecting a licensee OR a licensor to have to guess at whatever the other side claims were its intentions at the time is unreasonable. I mean, if the DIKU authors piped up and stated that they intended for nobody to have a black dragon in a DIKU-derived mud, would those of you clamoring to include things that aren't in the license be clamoring to enforce that? It's no more in there than a prohibition against taking money from players is in there.
--matt
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