[DGD] Commercial question

[Christopher Allen]

Shentino wrote:
> Is this allowed without a commercial license:
> 
> 1.  Setting up a public mud.
> 2.  Accepting donations to keep it running.
> 
> These donations would not be in any way mandatory and would confer no
> benefit apart from keeping the mud running. 
> 
> I'm thinking that if you aren't charging access fees and whatnot,
> it's allowed.  However, I just wanted to ask just to make sure. 

I think technically Dworkin's DGD license doesn't allow this, but you'll
have to get an official answer from him.

It is a fine line that makes this difficult -- there has been some
experience with other games where someone said that it was donation only,
but later we discover that it was more then that.

Skotos can also offer a commercial license to the single-user DGD, and we
are considering some type of low-end license intended for muds. The idea
would be that we'd charge a small upfront fee, and would get a decent
royalty percentage if revenues exceed X per year, where X is what we guess
hosting costs are. But we would get a report on revenues and audit privs so
that we can double-check to make sure.

-- Christopher Allen

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