Author: Roger Brown
Date: 10:52:39 11/09/05
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>Hey guys, come down ! > >1. Eduart can post results of private new Toga versions. Thomas must shipped his >source. There is no problem with the GPL. > >2. Fabien must be carefull to take new parts of Fruit 2.1 based versions, like >Toga, because if he would use a completly new function of the source code, may >written by Thomas, Fabien must release his version under GPL again, because he >used a part of a GPL program. In this case it don't depends if he is the author >of this GPL code or not. > >Best, >Daniel Hello Daniel, I find this fascinating. Are you saying that if Fabien uses code from 2.1 in subsequent versions he has to release the code from those versions? So isn't that saying that the owner/author of code gives up his right to own (close it if he wants) code once he makes it GPL? Further, the author of Toga can write and send versions of his largely derivative program to selected persons without releasing source? So the conclusion I arrive at is that Fabien and anyone else is a *** fool for ever giving us a free gpl engine. Please consider this a warning all you brilliant chess programmers out there with original ideas: Do *not* release your sources. I am distressed by this line of reasoning but I saw it coming a long time ago. I suppose that in the stampede no-one remembers the history of Toga etc. I would laugh if the irony of it all was not so painful. Absurdity (I am not referring to your post Daniel) rules. Later.
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