Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 09:18:16 09/26/05
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On September 24, 2005 at 03:29:10, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 24, 2005 at 00:13:09, Roger Brown wrote: Hello Uri, Hello Roger, >>>Yes >>> >>>Note that I think that the fact that chest is not installed in the default >>>software of Fritz is meaningless for buyers of Fritz who have internet access >>>and can download chest as an UCI engine so the main reason that copying chest to >>>Fritz by chessbase can be considered as using it for commercial purpose is that >>>part of the buyers of Fritz have no connection to the internet. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >> >> >>Hello Uri, >> >>This of course is surprisingly illogical. > >I do not see what is illogical. >> >>The terms of distribution explicitly forbid the program being sold as part of a >>commercial deal. Yes. >The terms of distribution do not forbid customers to install chest in chessbase >as UCI engine. Yes. >Based on my understanding the terms of distribution forbid chessbase to do >things that every customer of chessbase with connection to the internet can do. Yes, mostly. >If I understand correctly chessbase are allowed to give the customer >instructions how to install chest inside the package but are not allowed to do >it for him so if he has no connection to the internet he cannot do it. Yes. >I think that if something is illogical then it is the terms of distribution >unless the target is to make chest commercial but if the target is to make chest >commercial then I see no reason of making it free for unlimited time for >everyone with connection to the internet. > >Uri It may seem illogical to you. Maybe it _is_ illogical. Yet, that's what it is. We wanted to enable others to _use_ Chest, but we also did _not_ want anyone to make money with it, except perhaps ourselves... one day. If that does not make sense for you, I'm sorry... it's not a perfect world ;-) Cheers, Heiner
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