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

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 02:55:10 11/23/05

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On November 23, 2005 at 05:39:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>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?

Hi Uri,
I'm not a lawyer but I think if you can come out with original code then
everything will be ok, assuming the underlying algorithms (e.g. compression) are
not patented.
But to redistribute Nalimov code or use it in a product you have to agree with
the terms of its license. If you don't and still use the code then you are
probably doing something illegal.



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