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I'm not out to flame you, no. Why would I bother looking to flame you in particular? I would have posted the same thing to anyone who criticized Medievia for using IP in a way that it doesn't have permission to use when said person is also using IP in a way he or she doesn't have permission to use.
I guess this really is where our worldviews differ. I don't see much strength in an argument based on the logic that "Other people do it too!" or "Well, we have lots of IP that's not infringing!" I wonder what your reaction would be if someone logged into 4 Dimensions and just took a bunch of area descriptions, en masse, and incorporated them into their own mud. You'd be ok with that I assume?
And no doubt if you assume that Medievia is DIKU-derived, they like using DIKU code. Just because you like to do something doesn't change whether it's right or wrong.
It's hypocritical to criticize them for doing something you do. Whether you hide the fact that you do it or not doesn't change whether it's hypocritical to criticize Medievia for it.
My opinion about the DIKU license is the same as about the Star Wars license: If the owners don't think it's worth enforcing, why should I care? It means the IP either isn't worth enough to bother protecting (DIKU) or the IP is so large that a few text MUDs using it without permission is relatively irrelevant (Star Wars).
Ahh right, it's ok for you to make a post shunning Medievia and implying they're horribly unethical, but can't have anyone pointing out that you do the same thing can we?
--matt
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