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Subject: Re: about endgame database : Konoval, Nalimov, bitbase ... and GNU

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:39:54 11/23/05

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On November 23, 2005 at 05:27:42, Alessandro Scotti wrote:

>On November 22, 2005 at 17:42:54, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>sometimes ago, I read that Toga couldn't use the Nalimov code in his sources
>>because GNU doesn't accept to have not GNU source as part of it ...
>
>Hi Vincent,
>GNU has little to do with it. Toga is released under the GPL, and will be able
>to use any GPL source as well as many others (public domain and other free
>licenses), but the Nalimov probing code is not one of those.
>
>>So an idea : "why doesn't exist a separate module from engine who can read multi
>>format end-game -databaseS ???" , a kind of DLL like executable.
>
>That's easy enough, but then woudln't you have the problem of building a free
>DLL with the Nalimov code?

I have a question about it.

What happens if somebody release a code that allow Fruit2.1 to use the nalimov
tablebases and put it in his site?

Does that person do something illegal or only releasing the exe file is illegal?

Uri



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