Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:42:38 08/23/04
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On August 23, 2004 at 17:17:21, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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. I did not say any of those things. I do not think that you understood my message.
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