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- Conditions Of Distribution Of AberMUD
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-
- The Software, both source code, design and scenario are copyright Alan Cox,
- Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, And Leon Thrane, save for the Blizzard pass section
- of the scenario which is (C)1988 Alan Cox, save for versions of the scenario
- on the ZX Spectrum 128K microcomputer.
- (C) 1987/88 All rights reserved.
-
- The software is freely distributable providing that the distribution
- conditions and the restrictions placed upon the distribution, as stated herein
- are also passed on with the software and that none of the rights to
- distribute AberMUD and to use it may be denied to the recepient, neither
- may the recepient be asked to surrender any of these rights.It is the duty of
- the distributor to ensure that this file is distributed WITHOUT MODIFICATION and
- to take reasonable steps to ensure that the recepient of the software is aware
- of its existance. A statment to the effect of "Please read the distribut file
- carefully" will be regarded as reasonable.
-
- The software shall not be used in any form or variation to make any form of
- commercial gains, be they financial or otherwise. Anyone wishing to use the
- software for commercial gains should contact the authors, as listed above in
- the copyright message.
-
- The software shall not be distributed to other people, unless this message,
- and the original source are distributed. You are welcome to distribute
- modified sources ONLY if the original is included too. We welcome the
- distribution of modified sources, or versions of the software ported to other
- machines, subject to these conditions.
-
- No additional of any form will be made available nor will any advice be
- given on its upkeep and modification save if the authors decide to do so on
- their own whim.
-
- The personas Anarchy,White,Atropos,Silverlake Moog and Debugiit shall not be
- used by any persons, and shall have suitable passwords set upon them to
- ensure this, save with the permission of the authors. The user of the system
- is however free to change the special privileges wired into these personas to
- suit himself, and his own personas.
-
- The credits list for the game may not be altered save for the addition
- of new credits, which must be clearly seperated from the original credits
- with a statement which makes it clear that the extra credits are NOT credits
- to the original version.
-
- None of the names on the copyright message printed by this program shall
- be removed from the copyright message.
-
- These conditions on the release of AberMUD are to be governed by the law
- of England as of 17/5/1988.
-
-
- Finally we would like to thank the following people
-
- Chris Samuel Who wrote much of the debugging utilities for the original
- "Judge Death" Honeywell version of AberMUD
-
- Robert Ash Our Honeywell system manager whose advice on the original
- "SYS$MAN" Honeywell version has proved invaluble, and whos comments
- that it was not possible started this whole crazy lark
-
- Lorry The ArchWizard
- For the idea of SETIN SETOUT ....
-
- Arthur The Button
- And other mindless amusements which kept us happily insane
-
- Life
- Without which it would be a) impossible and b) pretty pointless
-
- Dave Price Our Unix Support squad, who very kindy conveniently overlooked
- Tim Cairnes the huge amounts of filestore that I have been using recently,
- Gavin Harrold to develop the game system
-
- And all the many people who have played the game, giving it life and meaning
- and whose invaluble comments have helped to improve the game system, and
- who have proved beyond doubt that I can't spell suddenely
-
-
- WE PROVIDE NO WARRANY OF ANY SORT FOR THIS SOFTWARE. ABERMUD IS
- PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND , EITHER EXPRESSED OR
- IMPLIED INCLUDING , BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. THE TOTAL RISK AS TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF
- ABERMUD IS YOURS. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE WE MAKE NO UNDERTAKING
- TO CORRECT OR REPAIR FAULTS WITHIN THE SOFTWARE.
- WE, AND ANY OTHER DISTRIBUTORS OF THIS SOFTWARE AND MODIFIED FORMS OF
- THIS SOFTWARE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE OPERATION OR
- FAILURE TO OPERATE OF ABERMUD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND REGARDLESS OF
- THE FORM THOSE DAMAGES MAY TAKE, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR OF ANY OTHER CLAIM.
-
- THROUGHOUT THE CONDITIONS OF DISTRIBUTION, ABERMUD SHALL BE HELD
- TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE COMPONENTS OF ABERMUD OF WHAT EVER FORM, BE THEY
- GENERATED BY THE SOFTWARE OR SUPPLIED.
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- For reference this is release 3.7.14
- Anyone with release 3.7.13 already need install only the new bprintf.c module.
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