On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Ted Roby <ted.roby@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please tell me what I should do with his permission?
>
> At best, he can let me host my own mud with his code.
> At worst, he must rewrite his entire license in all the associated
> files.

Now *that* is an interesting question. As the original author, they
should be able to rerelease the original code with a different license
or with none at all. And they don't even need to do the work!  They
could provide someone, perhaps yourself, with a release to make the
code free. Otherwise, how would companies that once licensed their
code release it under a BSD License (which has happened).

Hunting down authors of abandonware can and has been done before. And
has also resulted in permission to release the code as open source. So
it can very much be a worthwhile endeavor.

And sorry for the mispellings before. This time I'm not walking up the
stairs to lunchb&. And fixing the to/cc line still sucks on mobile
devices.

Sean