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Subject: Yes, a good programmer and a weird team. (n/t)

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 09:47:20 12/10/04

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On December 10, 2004 at 12:34:01, Pedro Gomes wrote:

>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,
>
>I think it is worth to take some time and teach civilized manner to the Arena
>team members. Still better if you kick off some of them: you could sell better
>your nice software.
>
>All the best.
>
>PG



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