Author: Thomas Gaksch
Date: 21:57:56 07/22/05
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On July 23, 2005 at 00:49:06, Thomas Gaksch wrote: >On July 22, 2005 at 19:22:19, Peter Eizenhammer wrote: > >> >>> >>>i will publish the code if the new version plays good chess. toga based on fruit >>>will never be private. >>>thomas >> >>Hello Thomas, >> >>your point of view is clear, but it is simply a matter of fact, >>that it is not up to you. There are people who play with your toga betas online, >>on the chessbase server for example, and this cannot be called private. >>I think that is easy. So the only solution is: Publish any and every code >>for every version someone gets to play with it . Annoying, maybe, but on the >>other hand, >>it is not really a problem: Many fans have some webspace, and there are the >>"usual suspects" ;-), too, like Leo, Dann, and quite some others, you can even >>send it to me, as a bad and not very powerful solution, an update every week >>would not be a problem, I think, and everything is ok. >>But the solution you have chosen, with publishing just the half way, to say so, >>is really not a very good choice, and clearly against the GPL. >>Strength does not matter in this context, so you dont have to wait until you >>find some >>great improvement, that is not relevant for complying with GPL. >> >>So it is quite easy to comply: just ask some nice person to host the >>regular code updates, whenever there are any, and you and the fans of Toga >>can have fun. >> >>(ok, there was one thing: Fabien had asked you to publish a, hm, let me say, >>cleaned up version, with all the options from Fruit restituted etc. >>This version should come out soon, without any regard of additional >>improvements, >>it would be good for keeping peace). >> >>kind regards >>Peter > >hi peter, >i am not so familiar with the GPL. i did not know, that i must publish an open >source programm via download. i thought it is also possible via mail. and >everybody who asked me about a beta version i send it to them (incl. source and >GPL). i thought that was GPL compliant. >of course i have no problem with the distribution of beta versions. toga based >on fruit is no secret. >i first ask alex schmidt if he is willing to host also beta versions. if so, i >send the beta versions to him and everything should be ok. >if he only wants to distribute final versions, which i could understand, than it >would be gereat if there is an volunteer who wants to host beta versions. Dann, >if you read this. would you be so kind to host the betas? > >my english is not so good. i do not understand what you mean with this sentence: >"with all the options from Fruit restituted etc". what should i do exactly to >satisfy fabien? >thanks for your help peter. > >kind regards thomas hi peter, i think i know what you mean. i should publish a version where he is named as the "co-author". of course in the betas i have done this. ok, i will do it soon. the next version i release is the 1.0. this version is a "best of" from toga 0.93 and fruit 2.1 with little extensions like another futility pruning and some minor evaluation extensions. i will send this version this week to alex. i hope he is not on vacation. again thanks for your help. bye thomas
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