Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 06:04:26 08/18/05
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Hi Frank, On August 18, 2005 at 01:09:59, Frank Schneider wrote: >On August 17, 2005 at 15:54:04, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Thomas, >> >>I had some emails with someone who knows everything about GPL. So the conclusion >>is: >> >>You are not allowed to add nalimov code with the decompression code of Andrew >>Kadatch to Toga, because Eugine does not allow that his coded is released under >>GPL whereas you are forced to release Toga under GPL because it's code base is >>Fruit which is GPL. >> >>Fabien who has still all the rights on his source could switch to another type >>of license which would allow him to use the Nalimov code - well, if he wants >>too. >> >>So the only possibility for you to use the nalimov tablebases in Toga would be >>to write the access routines yourself. Of course you must add that code then to >>your source package because the base of your program is GPL which forces you to >>always give away the source when you give away a copy of your program. >> >>I hope this is not to complicate... >> >>Greets, Thomas > >maybe you already discussed that, but wouldn't it be possible >to distribute > >a) a fruit.exe/toga.exe with nalimov-code under a different license well, only when Fabien allows that, Thomas Gaksch can not publish toga under a different license. Fabien of course has all the rights. >b) a source package with all files except the tablebase code und the GPL? I believe as soon he provides an exe the full source of it must be included. He could only create a .dll for TB access and offer that in an OTHER download. It's not allowed to have it in the same package, as far as I understood. >By the way, what does Crafty do? Crafty has a fully different license. Greets, Thomas
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