Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:49:47 06/18/04
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On June 18, 2004 at 18:22:55, Ed Trice wrote:
>
>>I do not think that you have the right to forbid people to have programs that
>>play positions that can be derived from kapablanca chess without a license only
>>because they can be derived also from gothic chess.
>>
>
>But the court system does support my right to do so. Do you think you have the
>right to drink until you are drunk then drive? If you do, and you get caught,
>there are consequences.
This is different.
I do not find the law of not driving when you are drunk against justice.
In the case of gothic chess I am not sure if the system support your right.
It seems ridicilious to me if it really support your right about it.
I do not think that I can change the starting position in normal chess and get a
patent about it.
changing the starting position in an existing game is not something that people
should be able to get patent about it.
>
>>It is a question of justice.
>>I do not plan to write program for kapablanca chess(at least not in the near
>>future) but I hope that somebody that originally did not plan to write a program
>>for kapablanca chess will now do it without a licence only to prove that you are
>>wrong.
>>
>
>They can make a Capablanca Chess program.
>
>They can't make a program that plays Gothic Chess program without a license
>from me.
>
>That's all.
I read the following in another post:
" (...) a referrendum has been handed down by the Appellate Court of
Pennsylvania stating that any re-arrangment of a different starting
position so as to "intersect the set of playable positions normally
arrived at via the Gothic Chess starting arrangement" is an
infringement on the patent without the procurement of a license."
It is possible to claim by that logic that a Capablanca chess program is also
illegal because if you want to support setup position for every postion that can
be reached from Capablanca starting position then you support also positions
that can be reached notmally from gothic chess intial position.
Uri
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