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<LI><em>From</em>: Greg Munt <<A HREF="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</A>></LI>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Ben Greear wrote:
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> > It is popular for administrators to swap DIKU areas, to browse the web
> > for area repositories. You might say that releasing your code with only
> > one zone relieves you of any responsibility. I would not.
>
> I don't see these as problems. I don't physically have the time to write
> 10k rooms, and finding decent builders is tough, although I ahve a few.
> If there is a zone that someone else built, that will fit into my theme,
> why not use it? Of course, I'd personally change it at least a little,
> adding or changing mob scripts and such...
The problem arises where stock areas do not easily fit into the theme. A
further problem arises, where the mud has no real theme at all, and the
areas are a hotch-potch of any area the administration can lay their
hands on. (Island made the world irrelevant to the game, of course, but
that is the exception to the rule, really.)
> > See: Medievia.
>
> Yeah, thats the only topic that can get rgmd riled up for years at a time
> :P
And rightly so. But it illustrates very well how worthwhile it is, to
include a license with a source code release.
> > > Source in html files strikes me as useless, no one wants to read the
> > > stuff, and if it's not easily installable and compileable, no one ever
> > > will. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding....
[...]
> For instance, if I posted my most beautiful Red-Black binary tree code,
> would you read it? I can't even remember how I wrote it :P
It would largely depend on whether just the code was available, or if
detailed annotations were also provided...
--
Greg Munt, greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk; <A HREF="http://www.uni-corn.demon.co.uk/ubiquity/">http://www.uni-corn.demon.co.uk/ubiquity/</A>
"Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow."
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00518" HREF="msg00518.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Wed 18 Feb 1998, 04:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00409" HREF="msg00409.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 00:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00439" HREF="msg00439.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00431" HREF="msg00431.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00447" HREF="msg00447.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00457" HREF="msg00457.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Source Code Release</A></strong>,
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