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Subject: Re: Effect of tablebases on programs' performance

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 08:01:11 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 04:19:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 27, 2001 at 23:20:20, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>There really is no licensing problem with the GPL and the TB code.
>You only have to get permission from Eugene to include and redistribute
>his code (you need that anyway) and grant an exception to link your
>GPL code with Eugenes code.
>

It's a little tricker that that if you distribute binaries, as I do.

>The real issue is with freedom, i.e. Eugene's code is not free.
>Since it is used as a library and is only a minor and removable
>part of the chessengine I don't have much problems with that.
>
>My real problem is that I'm simply not getting permission from
>Eugene to redistribute his code. There isn't any license nor
>exception that can deal with that...

Indeed. It would be nice if Eugene could grant general redistribution
rights under a permissive license (not necessarily GPL), but of
course no one is obligated to do that.

--Jon




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