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Subject: Re: crafty & GPL (was Re:planning a SSE-optimized chess engine)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:59:28 01/13/05

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On January 13, 2005 at 15:51:15, Frank E. Oldham wrote:

>On January 13, 2005 at 04:08:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Using a lot of crafty code means you must make public your code as it is
>>released under GPL.elp.
>>
>>Vincent
>
>that's funny, I just looked at crafty's main.c and I see no mention of the GPL
>...

No, but the license is clear (and similar to GPL):
/*
 *******************************************************************************
 *                                                                             *
 *  Crafty, copyright 1996-2001 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor *
 *  of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. *
 *                                                                             *
 *  All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any     *
 *  form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the        *
 *  express written permission of the author.  This program may not be used in *
 *  whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without        *
 *  written permission from the author.  Such permission will include the      *
 *  requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that    *
 *  the program's ancestry will be known.                                      *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Copies of the source must contain the original copyright notice intact.    *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Any changes made to this software must also be made public to comply with  *
 *  the original intent of this software distribution project.  These          *
 *  restrictions apply whether the distribution is being done for free or as   *
 *  part or all of a commercial product.  The author retains sole ownership    *
 *  and copyright on this program except for 'personal use' explained below.   *
 *                                                                             *
 *  personal use includes any use you make of the program yourself, either by  *
 *  playing games with it yourself, or allowing others to play it on your      *
 *  machine,  and requires that if others use the program, it must be clearly  *
 *  identified as "Crafty" to anyone playing it (on a chess server as one      *
 *  example).  Personal use does not allow anyone to enter this into a chess   *
 *  tournament where other program authors are invited to participate.  IE you *
 *  can do your own local tournament, with Crafty + other programs, since this *
 *  is for your personal enjoyment.  But you may not enter Crafty into an      *
 *  event where it will be in competition with other programs/programmers      *
 *  without permission as stated previously.                                   *
 *                                                                             *



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