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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