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Subject: Re: Open source engines and licensing

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 20:59:25 02/23/06

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On February 23, 2006 at 23:32:18, James Swafford wrote:

>I've decided to make Prophet available for download as an open source
>engine ( http://chessprogramming.org/prophet )
>
>Before I do, I need to decide on what license to distribute it under.
>I haven't put a great deal of thought into this, but basically I
>don't want someone to take it, change a few lines, and call it their
>own.  I won't mind if someone uses it and modifies it, as long as
>it's "known" that it originated from Prophet.
>
>Further, I don't want to compete against Prophet derivative in a chess
>tournament, not that that's much of a threat to anyone right now.
>
>I'd be interested in hearing what licenses other open source engines
>are using and any issues that may have arisen, or if you wish  you
>had distributed it differently.
>
>--
>James

I like the way Daniel Shawul does it.
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/scorpio/liscense.txt



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