Author: Eric Oldre
Date: 12:28:46 12/16/04
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On December 16, 2004 at 15:00:43, Uri Blass wrote: >>Right now it seems that many of the engines that I would want to use to test >>against simply describe themselves as "Free". Do you think that for those >>engines the use I am planning for them would be acceptable? > >Yes > >There is no problem with that use for movei. > Thanks Uri! >In case of commercial programs you only need to buy copies of the program to >your friends. > >In case of free programs I think that your friends can download it from the >internet so I do not see your problem. > >The only objection of programmers may be that you send the program by email if >they prefer that you get to their site but in most cases programmers will have >no objection that you send people the program by email(it is the case with movei >and I believe the case is the same with other programs). > >Uri I guess that is where the problem would come up. What I would idealy like to do is have some sort of client program on my tester's machines that could automatically download the engines from my website. Along with a list of games to run. I would however not publish any links to (the engine's) locations, i wouldn't want people (who aren't my friends) coming to my site instead of the author's. And if advised that I'd need to even add a password to my site to make sure only my testers get the other engines from me I'd be willing to do that. although since there wouldn't be any links to the engines I don't think that would be a problem.
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