Message no. 1

From:	Darth Vader <j07c@***.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	T$R and MUDS
Date:	Sat, 15 Oct 1994 21:10:16 +0200

Please forgive this mega-late responce but I just came back and just had
to answer this one. By the way what happened to the copyright list, is it
on HEARN now?

> Hello, and felicitous greetings from Calvinoi MindFlyer! I just
> thought I'd pop this stuff onto the rpg-copyright list for 2 reason:
> 1. The list has been slow lately.
> 2. It's anti-T$R. :)

Those reasons are fine with me :) especially the second one.

> Basically, this Rob Repp (T$R) guy seems to have sent messages to all
> (or at leasmost) of the MUD's out there saying that T$R has copyrights
> on "AC", "HP" and other stuff like that, and that the MUD admin.
can't
> use those terms in their games because they are too much like AD&D.
> *Sigh* This guy just seems to spout bullshit. (Unless he's got a
> valid point, which is even worse...)

We didnt get one (Realm of Magic 134.102.216.8 4000)

> > With regards to the AC and HP issue, the following is an excerpt, without
> > any loss of context, from a letter Rob Repp sent to me in response to my
> > mail to him:
> > The use of AC and HP, etc., is copyrighted as part of the structure of our
> > gaming engine. If you use those or any stats in a manner identical to the way
> > we use them in products, it's an infringement.

Let me explain something. There is a whole line of MUDs - I think about
50% of the global MUD population - that are derivations of the DikuMUD.
This DikuMUD is very heavilly based on **&*, it practically is **&* on a
multiuser computer. I just wanted to let you know...

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