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(Message started by: nbarriga on Feb 26^th, 2008, 5:21pm)

Title: Software Licenses
Post by nbarriga on Feb 26^th, 2008, 5:21pm

Hi, I was just checking the code for Don Dailey's Sample C bot, the matchOffline kit and the perl scripts Arimaa Gameroom Interface and I couldn't find under what license they are distributed. On the top of the download page there is a note:

Please note that all software and other files provided here are copyright protected and are distributed for personal, educational and research use only. They may not be used in any commercial product or distributed commercially without a written consent. Please contact us in such cases.

I'm planning(I plan a lot, but usually don't do much, so don't get too excited) to start a free , community developed, arimaa bot(probably under the GPL license, though I'm still studying that), and I want to know how much time I'll need to spend rewriting the parts of my bot that are taken from the previously mentioned packages(most of it :) ).

Title: Re: Software Licenses
Post by omar on Feb 29^th, 2008, 2:24pm

I've updated the download page to mention the license they are distributed with. I decided to have all the stuff I've put there distributed under the Open Software License. But since some things there provided by others a different license might apply if specified in the downloaded files. In the case of Don's sample C bot it also uses the same Open Software License (as mentioned in the README file of the download).

Title: Re: Software Licenses
Post by nbarriga on Feb 29^th, 2008, 2:39pm

Thanks for your answer!

Unfortunately, according to GNU, the Open Software License is incompatible with the GPL, so I'll either have to rewrite the code(which I was planning to do at some point anyway) or release my work under the same license(which I haven't studied in detail, but seems OK to me).