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

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 07:59:04 11/23/05

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If you dynamically link to the egtb.o then you can leave it seperate and make
extern calls to it. That's one loophole of sorts in the GPL. You can use GPL
code in commercial apps as long as the GPL code is seperate from the main
application and dynamically linked instead of being builtin and static.

Then if someone requests the GPL code you're fine because it's a seperate
entity.
Example, there are a couple commercial games out that use SDL for OS X, Linux
ports (forget names off hand) and SDL is under the GPL license. If you look
you'll see the sdl.dll (or similiar) in the game directory.

Is the egtb license restrictive of sharing a shared object/dll or just the
source?

-Josh



>That's easy enough, but then woudln't you have the problem of building a free
>DLL with the Nalimov code?



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