Licensing and Status As A Derivative Work
Medievia was, at the time of its creation, based on the Merc MUD codebase(which in turn was based on DikuMUD). This is significant since, were Medievia still to be a derivative work of DikuMUD, it would be bound by the terms of the DikuMUD license.
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