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Subject: Re: ElChinito disassembly for all of us

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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