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Subject: Re: ElChinito disassembly for all of us

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 14:17:21 08/23/04

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On August 23, 2004 at 16:26:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 23, 2004 at 16:02:18, Roger Brown wrote:
>
>>>
>>>Actually there is a readme in the El Chinito package, in which the word Crafty
>>>does not appear.
>>>
>>>Gábor
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello Gabor,
>>
>>Not even as a contributor or a source of inspiration.  That has to be, at a
>>minimum, quite rude.
>
>The readme was written by Frank, not Eugenio Castillo.
>
>I discerned that ElChinito used the crafty framework in 2003.  I exchanged
>emails with Eugenio Castillo about it.  I suggested that he make the project
>open source and give attributions (both according to the crafty license) and
>that he should discuss it with Dr. Hyatt.
>
>He did try to contact Dr. Hyatt, according to email that I received Sat
>11/8/2003 4:39 AM:
>
>"i've write to Hyatt but still no answers, i do it 2
>times in 3 days (the public email from icdchess). This
>can be good or very bad."
>
>I assumed that somehow the matter hand been straightened out.  It might be good
>for Dr. Hyatt to check his email archives.  Perhaps something appeared to be
>spam but was actually an attempt to arbitrate the situation and has been
>overlooked.


Excuse me, are you saying that because Eugenio is pretending of having tried to
contact Bob via email in 2003 that AND that he didn't succeed in getting an
exchange with Bob that therefore Eugenio was allowed to steal the parts of Bob's
code without any permission?  I doubt that this logic is the actually leading
logic in Spain! Spain is part of the EU and the laws of copyright are valide
through whole Europe. The Law says without a doubt that you cannot steal code
and use it from Crafty without the permission of Bob to use it. The whole
question by Frank Q. namely if Chinito is a Crafty clone - this is absolutely
uninteresting. Already now we know that parts of Crafty code incl.  the bugs has
been illegally used without Bob's permission. Case closed. Frank must throw that
program from his webpage, period.



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