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I think there has been a gradual devaluation of the
concept of "from scratch". Kind of how most muds now
include the description "heavily modified" or "completely
rewritten" and so on, so that the phrases now have come
to mean "we have renamed races, added rooms, and
changed damage points, but are otherwise completely stock".
Similary, I think people have lost the meaning of "from scratch".
Coding a mud from scratch means you sit down at
your computer, and using whatever editor/IDE/whatever,
you open a blank page/project, and start putting in the
code that occurs to you.
If that's what you're doing, then there's no reason to fear
opposition from copyright fetishists, because you own everything
you write.
If what you mean by "from scratch" is "I'm going to try to
write as much of my own stuff as my expertise allows, but
I'll be adding templates and snippets from other people
which I will camouflage so it looks like I wrote it" then that's
a whole other ketle of fish. That's a business I wouldn't
advise you to undertake, and I would say that if you do,
then you have ample cause to fear.
I wrote up a document discussing some points of IP for
Dead Souls codebase users. While not all of it may
be useful to you, the "copyright basics" portion may
be enlightening:
-Crat
PS I'm not suggesting you're planning on stealing, by the
way. My comment is intended to illustrate what I think you
should avoid, not what I think you're planning.
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