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Subject: Re: Diagram images used here

Author: Shane Hudson

Date: 15:23:01 08/15/01

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Hi,

Thanks to all who responded. I don't need any code, as I already use C++ code
to generate an HTML table diagram from a position (using some black-and-white
bitmaps that look a lot like book diagrams) and converting it to produce
the diagrams shown here would take about 30 seconds. I just wanted to be
sure of the copyright status of the images. Since it doesn't seem very
clear, I think I'll look for other alternatives.

Cheers,
Shane


On August 15, 2001 at 11:29:54, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>There has been some controversy about this.  I got the piece images from Bob
>Hyatt, and I modified them a little.  I was under the impression they were
>public domain, but someone claimed they are from the Linares font set sold by
>Alpine Electronics (http://www.partae.com/).  Since we already owned a set of
>Linares fonts I assumed it was no problem to use these either way, in the same
>way it would be allowable to take a fancy text font and use it to make a title
>graphic for a web page.  Also, I dont mind sharing the Perl code for creating
>the table, but I can't really help with integrating it into an existing
> program.

[ Perl program snipped]

>On August 15, 2001 at 01:02:06, Shane Hudson wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm wanting to improve the look of diagrams in games in the HMTL export
>>format of my free chess database app Scid, and I like the ones generated
>>on this forum when a FEN position is posted, e.g.
>>
>>[D]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>Does anyone know who created these bitmaps, or if there is any implicit
>>copyright for them? I checked the FAQ and the diagram/ web directory here
>>but it only has the GIF images, no descriptive text file.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Shane



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