Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Serice
O.k. I know when I'm licked. Everyone who has responded is in agreement that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm still trying to find an amicable resolution though. Again assuming an otherwise Debian free license, can Prof. Hyatt add a restriction that all chess tournaments entries based u

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread John Hasler
Paul Serice writes: > Again assuming an otherwise Debian free license, can Prof. Hyatt add a > restriction that all chess tournaments entries based upon his original > source be clearly labeled and entered as "Crafty" or "a Crafty clone" and > still be Debian free. Have you pointed out to Prof. Hy

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Serice
John Hasler wrote: > > Have you pointed out to Prof. Hyatt that the sort of people hs is > worried about are unlikely to even read his license, let alone obey > it? I think as it stands now, if a hidden Crafty clone is competing in a tournament, both Prof. Hyatt and tournament sponsers cannot do

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On 3 May 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Paul Serice writes: > > > Of special importance here I believe would be paragraph 4 which states in > > part, "The license may require derived works to carry a different name or > > version number from the original software." > > But it does not say "The licen

W3C needs help to defeat a patent!

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
See the www.w3.org, and check out it's problem with P3P technology. W3C is working to keep this important security technology in the public domain. They need everyone with the time to research the prior art for this technology in order to get the patent claim rejected. It is currently owned by

Re: W3C needs help to defeat a patent!

1999-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 01:04:23 -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > See the www.w3.org, and check out it's problem with P3P technology. See http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19452.html for media coverage. http://www.w3.org/P3P/ (the most obvious place), unfortunately has no details on i

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
> Again assuming an otherwise Debian free license, can Prof. Hyatt add a > restriction that all chess tournaments entries based upon his original > source be clearly labeled and entered as "Crafty" or "a Crafty clone" > and still be Debian free. he can certainly require a statement that it is base

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Serice
Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > > > Again assuming an otherwise Debian free license, can Prof. Hyatt add > > a restriction that all chess tournaments entries based upon his > > original source be clearly labeled and entered as "Crafty" or "a > > Crafty clone" and still be Debian free. > > he can certai

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan P Tomer writes: > ...the gpl even requires the interactive start of the program to declare > copyright information. No. From the GPL: Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not requi

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-04 Thread John Hasler
Paul Serice writes: > I think as it stands now, if a hidden Crafty clone is competing in a > tournament, both Prof. Hyatt and tournament sponsers cannot do much about > it. The tournement sponsors can change their rules. For example, they can require all entries to be free software. > If a claus