Please note: development on this project has been paused for some time. If you want to learn more about what it was intended to be, see doc/manual.txt

PULP

                    Persistent Universe Logic Platform
                                  a.k.a
                    Programmable Universal Literature Platform

Pulp stands for several different things. Both Pulp and PULP are the same thing, and what Pulp is is online gaming software for hosting mixed-mode graphical and textual games that provide universe descriptions, real-time interactivity and gameplay. Related to technology of "MU" (Multi-user gaming servers like MUD, MUCK, MOO, MUSH, LP, DUM, SMAUG, UO, EQEmu, etc.)

Pulp can be used as a modifiable string store with an attached logic system, for the purposes of driving a rmeote graphical client, or it can be used as a multi-player text adventure game.

Pulp takes advantage of genericized concepts like "player", "group", "actor", "prop", "scene" to describe a world which can be faceted and as detailed as the scripts allow for it to be. Since Pulp's purpose is to both provide logic, output formatting, storage of data and a simple and effective interpreted language, it can be modified to suit the needs of a few focused purposes.

You are required to follow this license to use this software.

Definitions. "Users" are people who use the server and who are not considered owners of the service that the server provides. "Owners" are considered the people who have complete administrative control, can modify the source code. "Authors" are Users who are empowered to modify the server via a remote connection and do not have access to the controls associated with administrative control.

The gist of our license is that you may only sell access to the services if you have purchased a commercial license. However, we recognize that some independent developers may wish to garner some capital to pay for the costs of running the service, and so we will permit "Owners' to set donation policies and we will allow them to accept donations without any applicable fees as long as the amount collected annually is less than $2000 USD.

If you do not intend to take donations exceeding $2000 per year and do not intend to charge a fee for its use, then you are required to abide by the following rules to permit this software's use:

• You are not to charge for distribution of the software.
• You may release modified versions of the software under AL 2.0
• You may not remove copyright notices, license files or the original documentation from the software, source code, etc.

For explicit information on the licensing arrangements, see License.txt accompanying this file in the software package.

When discussing or documenting PULP, we request you use one of the ASCII logo depictions found in the accompanying file 'logos.txt', or one of the images found in /doc/logos/

If you are planning to run a gaming server, you'll have to use these depictions and/or logos in the game itself, and on the website and other materials associated with your game. We want to give you a wide array of choices so you can seamlessly integrated our logo with your trade dress.

You are permitted to include bitmap image snapshops of the ascii renderings, the ASCII renderings themselves, or the logo files, unmodified, with your website, game etc.