#45217: crafty - update license ---------------------------+--------------------------- Reporter: khindenburg@… | Owner: khindenburg@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.1 Keywords: | Port: ---------------------------+--------------------------- Ticket to try to resolve what license crafty is under. What's the correct license in macports? http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non- free/c/crafty/crafty_23.4-6_copyright {{{ Debian has received written permission in the form of an e-mail from Professor Hyatt: Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
you have my permission to distribute this code just as you did before. I am only trying to stop people from copying the source and then calling it their own and entering it into chess tournamennts, something that has now happened at least 3 times...
Bob
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station (205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
On Thu 14. Mai 22:13:48 CEST 2009 autobuilding was requested by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de> of nonfree@release.debian.net, this is the mail snippet: ... I would like to request autobuilding crafty. The licence is strictly non- free, but we have the explicit written permission to redistribute of the upstream author. I have had contact with him recently and am convinced that the reason for making it non-free, is the code abuse in computer chess tournaments as mentioned in the copyright file. We also do not alter craftys name or copyright notice, so everything that matters to the upstream author stays intact. Autobuilding does not interfere with that. }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45217> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X