You could call it a GPL program but then every commercial program would be GPL by that standard,Eelco de Groot wrote:No, I stand by what I posted earlier, with some mixed feelings, I do believe a good open source engine made out of this would be better than the mess called IPP. I am curious who they would claim as author, they posted all their progress to Vas already since March this year so now claiming it is not a Rybka clone is not very believable, and we have only seen the pseudos so the FSF would not technically accept that as authors I'd presume. I don't really know actually but I don't think a pseudonym can be a legal person in the sense of the law.
Mixed feelings as everybody now seems to be using this and calling it a "private engine" without further details. This is worse than calling it IPPOLITO, Little Robber or whatever... Can't we call it Gnuchess if it actually would become a GPL program?
I would not really know what to type in at the link you mentioned Christopher, is it confirmed that the Patriot programmer is behind this?
Eelco
One thing is certain, Norman Schmidt is not the author and as such has no right to declare anything GPL that concerns it. Norman Schmidt is a shit stirrer that was caught twice. In exile in Russia he believes that he can do what he likes. He does, until the day he loses everything.
If the author appears however.......we will be able to read the wonderments of their "discovery". Learn from them just how to make a 3000 elo engine (at the first attempt). We await any kind of proof that the "author" even understands what they created. They could after all not even fix their own engine. Maybe that was your job.
I really don't care about b or u or l or s or h or i or t language personally. To me it is like a flare spurted out of the bum of the aircraft. A very meaningless flare, as the missile does not seek heat.
Where are they here in public? Can you see them? However, now that we know where they really are and where they really live, I suppose we should not ask.......
Anyway.......
If you do not know what to type in the link with regard to GPL infringements, use logik. That is my best answer.
Christopher