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Subject: Re: Additional rules for wmccc

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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