Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:20:27 06/22/02
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On June 22, 2002 at 09:55:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: What i understand Bob is that he wrote the code, not the EGTBs, and later claimed copyright on the code when commercial usage would be made with it. >On June 21, 2002 at 12:42:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On June 21, 2002 at 12:01:46, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>The rule is not taylor-made for commercial companies. >> >>But by some amazing coincidence it has the very fortunate >>side-effect that Jeroen Noomen or Alexander Kure can supply >>the entire Rebel/ChessBase family of programs of opening books. >> >>(Most notably the Burtus/Fritz combination, which would >>otherwhise have been a major headache for them) >> >>'Huh' >> >>-- >>GCP > > >I think an answer would be for Eugene to say "no commercial program may use >my endgame tables in any chess tournament or event." _then_ the commercial >guys might "get it". It is ok for _them_ to use stuff they didn't create. >But the pipe only flows one way in that world. > >Again, I am for the "everybody uses it or only one program uses it" approach. > >Anything else is flawed in a basic way.
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