Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 22:05:59 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 23:18:23, Ed Trice wrote: >On January 01, 2004 at 15:19:40, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >>Well, I am still wondering about that. But would it not be a good idea to supply >>all participants of your challenge with a free licence. This would make things >>easier, especially regarding the fact, that some sort of patents are not valid >>in Europe or Germany. I am not experienced in handling licences of patents, and >>most programmers of chess engines also would not be. >If I ever give a free license away, the game becomes public domain. So, $1 is >the least amount I can charge for it. There is an international patent on file, >so your last statement is not exactly accurate. It just takes longer to get >through the process. As you see, I am not experienced with such licences. So please explain were details on that could be found. I will read them first, whether there would fees to be paid for every potential user of a later gothic chess playing engine, so that e.g. freeware engines will become impossible. I am completely unsure on possible consequences derivating from your existing patent. If it would be simply one dollar in total, please tell me, how to send you that money using paypal. >>So I am afraid to may be frustrated working on Gothic Chess beginning with >>legality problems though being additionally within a real minority !? >> >>Is it allowed to ask from which sponsor the price money has been established? >There is a very easy solution to this...just watch from the sidelines :) I am in doubt whether such a behaviour would be what you want to raise. Regards, Reinhard.
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