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Subject: Re: SMIRF licencing

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 15:17:43 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 18:15:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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/

Don't mention that to Reinhard:-) Trust me.....!



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