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Subject: Re: Fair uses for "Free engines".

Author: Volker Annuss

Date: 02:06:02 12/17/04

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Hello Eric,

you are allowed to use my Engine Hermann in the way you described it here.

IMHO fair use of free engines in the first place is a matter of
attitude/intentions/spirit. I think your test is what most engine authors want
to allow, but it is difficult to put this into a license.

What you want to do makes me think about how I defined "private use" in an
answer I gave to Gabor Szots some days ago. There I wrote, that giving a copy to
friends is no longer private use but I would not complain if he did so.

Your case is somewhat different. Not your friends use the software, but you use
it on their computers...

When I continue to think about this, I will end with a large text that only
lawyers understand. Have fun.


Greetings,
Volker



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