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Old 07-26-2010, 02:39 AM   #1
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Compliance reminder if you use "The Isles OLC" or "ILAB/OLC", "ROMolc" and others

Dear MUD Administrator:

KaViR and others have slowly erased from all online code repositories of MUD software the names and historical MUD server code that is associated with the original "The Isles 1.1 OLC" known also under other names. They have created "FUD" around this code-base and The Isles NiMUD for their own personal reasons, and have revised history in their own favor and not to be historically accurate. This degrading performance was brought to you by Richard Woolcock.

Files originated from:



(See: for evidence that NiMUD was once hosted, although not all versions that were on ftp.game.org were hosted here since only 2 files are seen inside the NiMUD directory.)

While code released by Jason Dinkel was in the public domain, the OLC was freely distributed under a license and that license has been ignored by subsequent revisionists who have released updates or unofficial ports of this code. The original license was in the Isles 1.1 code base which was distributed along with The Isles license. That code base is now only located in the ftp.game.org one-shot download and is not hosted on any of the other code repositories of which there are only 2.

If your MUD contains: EnvyOLC, "ROMolc", "IvanOLC", "Sam's OLC" and several other MUD OLCs which utilize a modal editor "MEDIT" "OEDIT" "REDIT" and include a "RESETS" command, or use area files with keywords like "#AREADATA" and "#ROOMDATA", then your MUD is using an OLC which is based on The Isles OLC, and is part of the NiMUD source code package. It is owned by its surviving author, myself, and to preserve its open source integrity, we request that you comply by placing the following notices into your software:

In the title sequence, during login, near the Diku authors, pick one of the two following taglines:

1)
Contains code from NiMUD by Herb "Locke" Gilliland and Chris "Surreality" Woodward

or

2)
Based on NiMUD by Locke and Surreal


In the help files, there should be a help document viewable by anyone (by typing 'help credits') that is called "NIMUD" and contains the following credits notice:

------------

This software contains code that originated in NiMUD as The Isles OLC by Herb Gilliland and
Chris Woodward. The "online creation" system was first released in 1993 for Merc/Diku muds.
Parts are copyrighted (c) 1993-2009 H. Elwood Gilliland and Chris Woodward (deceased).
Originally ported to "pure" Merc by Jason Dinkel and later adapted for use with ROM as ROMolc.

NiMUD and its latest version of OLC can be found at: SourceForge.net: NIMUD (Multi-User Gaming Engine): NIMUD (Multi-User Gaming Engine)

If you or the administrators of this MUD paid for a copy of this software or one of its derived works,
you have been defrauded and should contact the appropriate authorities immediately to try to get
your money back.

The authors of OLC would like to thank:

Kalgen of Zebesta - world interaction, area detail, combat
Kahn, Hatchet and Kith of Envy Mud - user-friendliness, portability
Morgenes of Aldara - innovative, intelligent ideas, code:P
Alander of Rivers of Mud - good debugging!
Surreality - the late great chris cool

We also salute all those who have come before us, namely those who wrote the
innovative mud softwares of Silly, Diku, Copper, Circle, Merc and Aber.


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Also, Jason Dinkel added the following requirement to the OLC itself, which your mud may or may not be in compliance with. A command "version" must exist in the OLC and display the following messages:

/*
* The version info. Please use this info when reporting bugs.
* It is displayed in the game by typing 'version' while editing.
* Do not remove these from the code - by request of Jason Dinkel

*/

#define VERSION "ILAB Online Creation [Beta 1.3]"

#define AUTHOR " By Jason(jdinkel@mines.colorado.edu)\n\r" \

" Modified for use with ROM 2.3\n\r" \
" By Hans Birkeland (hansbi@ifi.uio.no)"

#define DATE " (Apr. 7, 1995 - ROM mod, Apr 16, 1995)"

#define CREDITS " Original by Chris 'Surreality' Woodward (cxw197@psu.edu) and Herb 'Locke' Gilliland (locke@lm.com)"

#define ADDONS " Mudprogram's (Mobprogram, Objprogram and Roomprogram) originally\n\r" \

" by the SMAUG development team\n\r" \
" Ported to EmberMUD by Thanatos and Tyrluk of ToED\n\r" \
" (Temple of Eternal Death)\n\r" \

" Tyrluk - or \n\r" \
" Thanatos - or \n\r" \

" Heavily modified by Zane (zane@supernova.org) "

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