Author: Dan Homan
Date: 17:10:31 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 19:21:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 05, 2000 at 17:48:34, Dan Homan wrote: > >>As the author of EXchess, this concerns me greatly. I never released >>the endgame tablebase code as GPL. I simply included those files in my >>distribution (like crafty) so that people could compile my program. I've >>written to Eugene about this. >> >>I really feel terrible about this and for now I am pulling the EXchess >>source-code from my webpage and would ask others to do the same (for those >>who have posted it) until this is cleared up. The easiest thing for me >>to do in the future is to merely specify that an interested party will >>have to obtain the endgame tablebase code separately if they want to >>compile my program and give them a reference to crafy's ftp site. > >An alternative would be to use Edwards/Thompson format. It should be fairly >easy to write a compressor. I have lots of compression code which might prove >useful. Zlib is one obvious choice. I've heard back from Eugene, and tomorrow (or perhaps thursday) I will post a revised version of the EXchess source code package. The revised version will have more explicit notices about the different (non-GPL) copywrite on the two egtb probing files. I also plan to add something to the readme file about this issue. - Dan
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