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Subject: Re: Crafty changes to egtb.cpp - long post

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 13:56:48 12/04/00

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On December 04, 2000 at 15:47:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Nalimov >>
>"If so, how it happened that you included other
>person's code without prior contacting him? Please note that under USA law
>"source code available" doesn't mean "public domain". There is still a
>copyright."
>
>First of all never heart of this. Secondly you never mentionned anything
>when i emailed you *never ever* you said something about this.

I saved copies of all the messages you ever sent to me. If you want, I can send
them to you, so that you can check that yur *never* asked the permission to
include my code in your program.

>Last i downloaded crafty and have so far
>indeed used egtb.cpp of it.
>
>As far as i know i can use that code for any
>purpose as far as i post the changes made to it.

That's wrong. Crafty is not GPL'ed. Please read the copyright notice at the
beginning of main.c. The relevant part of it says

(quote)

   "All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any
   form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the
   express written permission of the author."

(end quote).

Eugene

> (a lot of code deleted)



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