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(Moved here from the Tavern as it was deemed worthy of careful excision, presumably for not dealing with the DIKU license itself. Or something.)
Outside of the DIKU license issue, Medievia remains a derivative of DIKU (), yet does not credit the authors anywhere inside their game or in their copyrights. One of their own (who resigned after becoming aware of the plagiarism) outlines this in more detail.
Has anyone found evidence to dispute any of the following?
1) Medievia IV was a derivative of Merc 1.0 (itself a derivative of DIKU), as shown by . Previous to this evidence surfacing, the ownership of Medievia claimed the code was entirely original.
2) Medievia V is a derivative of Medievia IV, per their own documentation, and therefore a DIKU derivative. (No "clean-room" implementation from scratch has been claimed by any party.)
3) Therefore, subject to both the license and copyright law, Medievia must display the authorship of the code which their game is based on.
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