People such as Richard Woolcock, known as KaVir on the internet, the author of the GodWars codebase, and Michael Siefert, one of the original Diku authors, claim that it still is. This is a controversial claim as Medievia accepts money from donations, which would be a violation of the Diku and Merc licences.

A large file of leaked Medievia code confirms that at least for some years of its existence Medievia was a DIKU-derived MUD, while it claimed to be completely orginial.

Medievia's owner Michael Krause claims that these allegations are unfounded as the entire MUD has been rewritten completely in version 4, thus making it no longer a derivative.

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