Licensing Information for TinyMARE v1.0.10340 FINAL, February  1 2020
Copyright (C) 1993-2020 by Byron Stanoszek
All Rights Reserved
_________________________________________________________________________

This archive of TinyMARE has  been  developed over  several 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 <gandalf@winds.org>.