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Interesting. Tell me, if I were to procure a copy of Achaea and use it to run my own mud, would you reserve judgement until the issue was resolved in the courts?
Let's suppose I felt your licence/copyright restrictions were old fashioned and that they shouldn't apply to me, because I'd made many changes to the original code.
And for the sake of argument, let's also assume that you'd personally examined the code for my mud (with a document I'd signed under penalty of perjury stating that the code you examined was indeed what I was using) and that you'd discovered that a large percentage of it was identical to your copyrighted work.
Obviously you'd take legal action - but until the matter was decided in court (or if it was decided in my favour) would you act as if nothing had happened?
Would anyone blink an eye if I turned up with my "I started out as a copy of Achaea, but I've changed so much that I'm now something completely different" mud?
And would you object to seeing my mud on the list (assuming I gave up my day job and started running the mud for a living)?
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