Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 12:25:15 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 14:36:32, enrico carrisco 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 > >If only the word "especially" had been "however", things would have been so much >clearer. Legal lingo or not, "especially" was not the best choice. >"Especially" is most commonly a supporting word for a previous statement -- but >here it is (obviously) used to mean "Above all" or "principally" (most >importantly.) > >Nevertheless, the license (however much needing a revision for clarity) does >indeed state that Mr. Skinner is in violation for making the software available >on his web-site. The argument that Mr. Skinner's distribution of Arena in this >manner is protected within the segment of the license agreement that allows >distribution to friends and comrades is only valid if only those individuals >have access to such a web-site. > >It's an open and shut case in my opinion. > >-elc. The question is why a software has copyrights with ideologies that contradict each other? For example, couldn't Peter make a note on his site: "For all my chess friends, if you are interested in Arena then please send a mail at the following adress and I return you a copy of Arena." Does the copyright prevent this? He would be sharing with his colleges. regards Andy
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