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Subject: Re: [OT] An open letter to Martin Blume

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 09:38:43 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:
>
>"You may distribute the content of the program package only in unmodified
>form. Especially, distribution of Arena GUI, SOS for Arena, Dragon, AnMon,
>Nejmet, Ruffian, Betsy, The Baron, Chispa, EL Chinito and for ELOstat on
>other webpages, newspaper, CDs, print and other media without the
>permission of authors Martin Blume, Rudolf Huber, Bruno LUCAS,
>Christian BARRETEAU, Jean-Christophe GABILLARD, Per-Ola Valfridsson,
>Landon W. Rabern, Richard Pijl, Federico Andrés Corigliano,
>Eugenio Castillo / Pascal Tang and Dr. Frank Schubert is not permitted."
>
>Regarding Arena that reads:
>
>"You may distribute the content of the program package only in unmodified
>form. Especially, distribution of Arena GUI [..] on
>other webpages [..] without the
>permission of author[..] Martin Blume [..] is not permitted."
>
>So you did not have the permission to offer my software Arena on your site, and
>you do not have the permission by me. So I am asking you to remove my software
>from your site.
>
>Best regards,
>Martin Blume




Hi Martin,
change "Especially" to "However".
Matthias.








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