Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 09:33:18 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 11:54:33, Martin Blume wrote: >On December 10, 2004 at 11:37:13, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>This is a copy of the email that I just sent Martin: >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Hello Martin, >> >> >>So please grant me permission to host Arena and the situation can resolve >>itself. We can then get back to what is important... Chess. >> > >Hello Peter! > >It is too late now. The license agreements are quite clear of it. I am quoting >myself from the copyright notes in the Arena distribution as well as from our >Website: It is to late now? So what about when I _did_ ask for permission and was banned from your site. Was I to late then as well? Based on your non-commercial usage license agreement, which is the _only_ one that is really of service here: "Non-commercial: Arena, SOS for Arena, Dragon, AnMon, Nejmet, Ruffian 1.x, Betsy, The Baron, Chispa, Hermann, Frenzee, Gothmog and ELOstat may only be distributed free of charge. Commercial advertisement, distribution for profit, and distribution through commercial companies is generally prohibited. Software distributed under our FREEWARE license is under copyright of Martin Blume, Rudolf Huber, Bruno LUCAS, Christian BARRETEAU, Jean-Christophe GABILLARD, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Landon W. Rabern, Richard Pijl, Federico Andrés Corigliano, Volker Annuss, Sune Fischer, Tord Kallqvist Romstad and Dr. Frank Schubert. However, in the spirit of the chess community, we do grant users of the software the right to share it freely with their comrades / collegues, with the exeption that this is not done for commercial benefits. The software, distributed in this way, may represent work in progress, and bears no warranty, Neither expressed or implied" Since I am making no money from it at all I am not in breach of part 1. As you can not tell me who I can deem my comrades/collegues and still not making any money from it, there is no problem with part 2. Under this license I _can_ distribute it free from my site. I did ask for permission. In fact it was of great discussion here that once I did ask, I was removed from your site. Is that how you deal with people who ASK for permission? Frankly I think the only thing to late here is you finally speaking on it. Peter
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