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Subject: Re: SMIRF licencing

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:15:36 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 18:13:13, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On January 13, 2006 at 18:07:46, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2006 at 15:58:57, Robert Hollay wrote:
>>
>>>Shareware. Test SMIRF free until 2006-01-31.
>>>What will happen after that date?
>>>I looked around the SMIRF site, but didn't quite understand it's licencing
>>>model. Part of the text is written in German, especially the shareware licence.
>>>What should we do to get it permanently?
>>>I find it's an interesting GUI + Eng. Is the goal to make it commercial?
>>>
>>>Best, Robert
>>
>>It's my understanding the engine will not work in any other interfaces, only the
>>SMIRF interface. Is this correct?
>>
>
>Correct for the moment. I'm trying to convince him to change this....:-)
> What i think he prevents him from doing this is that there is no other GUI that
>supports 10x8 Chess variants and this is one of the strong points of Smirf, so
>this will not show real Smirf's capabilities....Of course he may clear this up
>better......

There is an excellent free open source interface that supports all kinds of
chess variants, including large boards.  It also comes with its own chess
engine.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessv/




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