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& code
& contact
PennMUSH is developed by a team of developers whose names are
listed in 'help changes'.  Suggestions, comments, and bug reports are
welcome.

The main PennMUSH web page is at http://www.pennmush.org

Report bugs and make suggestions at:  http://dev.pennmush.org

The PennMUSH community page is at http://community.pennmush.org

For information about downloading PennMUSH, see 'help download'.
For information about changes in versions of the code, see 'help changes'.
& download
The latest version of this MUSH code is available at
http://download.pennmush.org/Source.  It will be called something like
pennmush-1.7.6p0.tar.Z, depending on the version number. You
will also find files of translations of server messages into various
languages in Source/translations/<version>. See help i18n
for more.

Also on that site is the MUSH manual, in /Manuals. It should be called
mushman.2.008.tar.Z or something similar; you should attempt to get at
least version 2.007.  Also on that site is Javelin's Guide for PennMUSH
Gods, in /pub/PennMUSH/Guide. A better way to read it is on the Web at
http://javelin.pennmush.org/~alansz/guide.html

& i18n
& internationalization
& locale
& translation
Internationalization support in PennMUSH includes:
* Support for (8-bit) locale-based character sets, including
  translation of iso-8859-1 accented characters to html entities for
  Pueblo, the accent() and stripaccents() functions, and the NOACCENTS
  flag.
* Support for locale-based date/time formats
* Support for locale-based message sets for translations of server
  messages. There are active translation teams (and you can join!)
  and several languages have practically complete translation files
  available from the PennMUSH ftp site.
* Some support for locale-based string collation
* The ability to alias command and function names, so you can generate
  a set of translated commands/functions.

Most of these features get enabled by setting an appropriate environment
variable in the PennMUSH restart script.

Unicode is not currently supported.

& copyright
& copyrite
& license
Copyright, License, and Credits for PennMUSH 1.x. Revised March 2006.

I. Copyrights

PennMUSH 1.x
Copyright (c) 1995-2006, T. Alexander Popiel <talek@pennmush.org>
and Shawn Wagner <raevnos@pennmush.org>.

Some code used in this server may have been derived from the
TinyMUSH 2.2 source code, with permission. TinyMUSH 2.2 is
Copyright (c) 1994-2002, Jean Marie Diaz, Lydia Leong, and Devin Hooker.

Some code used in this server may have been derived from TinyMUSH 2.0.
Copyright (c) 1995, Joseph Traub, Glenn Crocker.

Some code used in this server may have been derived from TinyMUD.
Copyright (c) 1995, David Applegate, James Aspnes, Timothy Freeman
and Bennet Yee.

 *------------------------------------------------------------------------*

II. License

Because PennMUSH includes parts of multiple works, you must comply
with all of the relevant licenses of those works. The portions derived
from TinyMUD/TinyMUSH 2.0 are licensed under the following terms:

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that: (1) source code distributions
  retain the above copyright notice and this paragraph in its entirety, and
  (2) distributions including binary code include the above copyright 
  notice and this paragraph in its entirety in the documentation or other 
  materials provided with the distribution.  The names of the copyright 
  holders may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from 
  this software without specific prior written permission.

  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.

The portions derived from TinyMUSH 2.2 are used under the Artistic
License. The Artistic License is also the license under which you
are granted permission to copy and modify PennMUSH:

The Artistic License

Preamble

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Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
reasonable modifications.

Definitions:

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