Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:07:40 08/23/04
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On August 23, 2004 at 17:42:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Ahem. Now that is the position for defenders of ElChinito. I see... Perhaps Bob will even declare that he had forgotten that he had given permission to Eugenio long ago... Like Bob always said, if a frog had pockets and could fly... then he could carry a gun and control the traffic in L.A. from the air. My version because I like California more than Alabama. :)
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