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                          Version 2.0 beta 5

EmpireMUD 1.0 was developed from CircleMUD 3.0, bpl 17 and tbgMUD 2.4. It was
originally created by Paul Clarke, a student at the University of Arizona, in
2000, with ongoing work by the original author. All code which is unique to
EmpireMUD is the intellectual property of Paul Clarke, and all code distributed
as part of EmpireMUD is the property of its respective authors. Please read the
EmpireMUD license for more information.

   Paul S. Clarke / Khufu / Gideon
   Programmer and lead designer
   paul@empiremud.net

Special thanks to:
 Jason "Opie" Babo, server admin and supporter since day 1
 Gaia, longtime EmpireMUD admin and purveyor of critical feedback
 Yvain, for numerous contributions and support
 Domino, for numerous contributions and support
 The DG Scripts authors, for a very handy scripting system
 Dr Ravi and the U of Arizona Cancer Center, for making this possible
 JL Decker, Billy "stormdragon2976" Wolfe, Awkens Ryder, and Trisha Maelicia
 The entire EmpireMUD community, for ideas and feedback

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                    C  I  R  C  L  E  M  U  D     3  .  0


CircleMUD was developed from DikuMUD (Gamma 0.0) by Jeremy "Ras" Elson at
Johns Hopkins University's Department of Computer Science.  All code unique
to CircleMUD is protected under a copyright by the Trustees of the Johns
Hopkins University.

CircleMUD is freeware and can be downloaded via anonymous FTP from
ftp.circlemud.org or ftp2.circlemud.org in pub/CircleMUD.  Its author can
be contacted at jelson@circlemud.org.

Type HELP CIRCLEMUD for more information.

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                   Original game idea, concept, and design:

          Katja Nyboe               [Superwoman] (katz@freja.diku.dk)
          Tom Madsen              [Stormbringer] (noop@freja.diku.dk)
          Hans Henrik Staerfeldt           [God] (bombman@freja.diku.dk)
          Michael Seifert                 [Papi] (seifert@freja.diku.dk)
          Sebastian Hammer               [Quinn] (quinn@freja.diku.dk)

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Additional contributions from Michael Curran, Bill Wisner, Mads Haar, and
Stephan Dahl.

Originally developed at:
  DIKU - The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.
