Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:30:05 04/10/01
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On April 10, 2001 at 03:41:16, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On April 09, 2001 at 14:08:04, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 09, 2001 at 12:55:09, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>On April 09, 2001 at 12:35:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>Richard lang replied me that he gave permission for Genius2 to be used on the
>>>>site http://www.gambitchess.com/progr.htm
>>>>
>>>>(I asked if it is legal to download it from that site)
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Okay, you guys have convinced me.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>
>>But is it legal to download it from other sites? Lang gave permission for the
>>site gambitchess, but did he gave it for other sites?
>>
>>And on the polish site you can download a number of other programs (like all the
>>ChessMasters up to CM4000turbo) which can still make posting the link illegal.
>
>Yes, I deleted that post, and if what you say is true, and I think it is true,
>I'd delete the link again if someone posts it again.
>
>I'm interested in trying pretty hard to make sure that people aren't able to
>spread bootleg program information here. It's easy to do that -- you see that
>the link points to stuff that looks commercial, and you zap it.
>
>I'm a little less worried about the case where someone is redistributing a free
>program that is only available in one place. That sounds a little more
>complicated to figure out, and I think that I'd leave links like that unless the
>owner of the software, or some other informed person, complains about it.
>
>Meaning, everyone knows that Rebel is not free, and Crafty is. So default is to
>delete specific Rebel links and leave specific Crafty links, unless requested to
>do otherwise.
>
>Does this sound sensible?
>
>bruce
Yes.
It's good to hear that the moderation team is willing to pay attention to this
problem.
Christophe
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