sharp-mud is licensed under the MIT License.
sharp-mud's engine design (the Thing/Behavior composition model, the
generic event system, session/transport abstractions, and several other
architectural decisions) is informed by a close reading of
WheelMUD's source code and
architecture. See docs/research/wheelmud-findings.md
for the full source-dive record of what was adopted, what was deliberately
changed, and why.
sharp-mud is a clean-room reimplementation, not a fork or derivative of WheelMUD's source — no WheelMUD code is included in this repository. WheelMUD itself is licensed under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), which does not apply to sharp-mud's own, independently-written code (see ADR-0006's License and naming section for the full reasoning).