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Subject: Re: Gothic Chess and missing a Graphical interface

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 09:11:29 01/07/04

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On January 07, 2004 at 11:52:26, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>The patent issue was not clear at all clear to me and probably to others. And
>why play with fire as developer if there is no need to do so, for a technical
>person who like a challenge.
>
>I know also that copyrightholders and probably also patentholder have to protect
>it else they loose this right. You do this well but please take care with
>Reinhard Scharnagl. He has probably nothing negative in his mind.
>I think he is perfectly capcable in making a Gothic Chess program too.

I thought it was rather clear; $1 = no worries.

Would it not be more difficult to create a convoluted program, as he suggested,
than to send me $1?

I think I was being reasonable, and I think he was offering what he perceived as
a "legal loophole", which everyone who jumped through would get burned.

I was preventing a catastrophe.



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