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From: Richard.Woolcock@rsuk.rohde-schwarz.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:22:45 +0000
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Jon Lambert <tychomud@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> A critical point:
>
> While a product can be relicensed, current users of that product
> perforce have the *right* to choose which license (older or newer)
> they care to operate under. If not, the product vendor would be
> in the position of retroactively rewriting the contract between
> themselves and their users without their users having any say in
> the matter.
>
> While I'm sure some vendors would (briefly) love such a situation,
> the potential for abuse is enourmous, which is why contract law
> doesn't work that way.
I was under the impression that the mud administrators were the "users",
not the players. This is the same problem that means a GPL'd Diku
wouldn't have to display the copyright notices to the players, only
to the "user/s" - the people running the mud.
--
KaVir.
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