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Subject: Re: what's the license on nalimov's tb code?

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 09:58:18 04/29/02

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On April 29, 2002 at 11:25:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 29, 2002 at 10:48:56, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
>
>>can anyone tell me what is the license on nalimov's egtb source code that
>>resides in prof hyatt's ftp site (TB/tmp directory)?  is it public domain?
>
>No, certainly not.
>
>It is copyrighted software, which basically means that you are not
>allowed to copy it at all, unless you have permission from the
>author.

Note also that, while Eugene has a copyright on the tablebase code, if you use
the compressed format of the tablebases, you also need the decompression code,
which is copyrighted by Andrew Kadatch.

--Jon



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