Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 06:29:55 02/05/02
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On February 05, 2002 at 09:21:00, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Since Crafty and YACE are among the strongest winboard programs why does it >comes with GNU Chess 5.02 instead? Hmm I guess the authors need to give permission, and even then, there may be licensing issues.Probably (guessing here) has to be GPLed or whatever.. not just free to download.. Also perhaps for historical reasons. Did you know that the whole Xboard/Winboard protocol thing began with Gnuchess and Xboard? Of course back then, it wasn't thought of has a open communication protocol because only gnuchess ran in it.
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