Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:06:18 09/10/01
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On September 10, 2001 at 13:19:37, Bruce Moreland wrote: >The PGN standard seems to be owned by Steven J. Edwards. The standard is >extremely important, and he hasn't made any changes to it for the past several >years, so there is now an attempt to declare him unimportant and change the >spec. > >A post detailing these changes was submitted to r.g.c.c. a few days ago. The >changes are being authored by: > >Alan Cowderoy (Palamede), Ben Bulsink (DGT Projects), Andrew >Templeton(Palamede/Palview), Eric Bentzen (Enpassant.dk, Palamede), Mathias >Feist >(Chessbase), Victor Zakharov (Chess Assistant). It would be nice if they also posted it here. Anybody have a link? >I know who some of these people are, but not all of them. DGT makes chess >boards, CA and CB are well-known, and Palamede looks like it's just a chess >website. > >There are many topics for discussion here: > >1) Is Steven J. Edwards out, and if so, is this how ownership of the standard is >supposed to be passed? They should contact him and ask, especially since there are copyright issues. >2) Is this a fait-accompli since Chessbase and Chess Assistant have apparently >signed on to this? Could well be. Dave
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