Licensing Information for TinyMARE v1.0.10338 FINAL, April 10 2015 Copyright (C) 1993-2015 by Byron Stanoszek All Rights Reserved _________________________________________________________________________ This archive of TinyMARE has been developed over seven years by the named authors above. An active effort exists to support upgrades on a regular basis in which numerous bugs and glitches shall continue to be fixed. The various utility programs contained within the package are also under this copyright notice. Credit for borrowed ideas and code used in the creation of the TinyMARE server is given to many MUDs and other programmers listed at the bottom of this text. Permission to copy and redistribute this software is granted provided all the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers are duplicated verbatim. Users of this software may apply bug fixes, portability fixes, or other modifications as desired provided that the user places prominent notices in each modified file stating how and when that file was changed. The authors of this software encourage, but do not enforce, submissions of source code patches, and the authors reserve the right to include such patches in future releases of this software package. Users of this software may not charge a fee for the duplication, support, or distribution of this package and the source code contained therein, or otherwise gain commercial benefit from the distribution and support of binary executables compiled using any source code in this package. Users may only charge a fee for the access to the service provided through the use of this software. Copyright holders reserve the right to charge a fee for future or modified versions of this software package or change the licensing agreement in its entirety. All materials developed in consequence of the use of this software shall be in accordance with standards of acknowledgment in academic research. In conjunction with products arising from the use of this material, there shall be no use of the names of the authors nor any adaptation thereof to endorse any advertising, promotional, or sales literature without a prior written consent from the authors in each case. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OF OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. _________________________________________________________________________ Credits ------- This package does not contain any code used directly from other servers or games, however this package maintains those ideas and concepts created by their respective authors listed below. Based on TinyMUD code Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, David Applegate, James Aspnes, Timothy Freeman, and Bennet Yee. All rights reserved. TinyMUSH (c) 1990 by Lawrence Foard: Wrote the original TinyMUSH 1.0 code from which this style of coding was later derived. TinyMUSE (c) 1993 by Jin, Erk, and the developers of MicroMUSH: Made many, many changes to the code that improved it immensely. Others: Many features borrowed from other muds to which no source code or name was readily provided. _________________________________________________________________________ The author can be contacted at .