[Fedora-legal-list] scid legal opinion required

[Mikhail Kalenkov]

2009/1/13 Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
> On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 22:26 +0300, Mikhail Kalenkov wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'd like to know if scid is suitable for inclusion in Fedora
>>
>> http://scid.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> License, as stated in the COPYNG file, is GPL. Tarball includes some
>> nonGPL staff
>> (opening books) that can be removed without great losses to package.
>>
>> But also scid includes some nonfree (?) Nalimov code which is
>> important for me. File COPING says about Nalimov code the following
>>
>> ************************
>> Please note: although there is no explicit copyright notice in the
>> tablebase decoding code, all rights are reserved by its author
>> Eugene Nalimov and you should ask for permission before using it.
>> He has granted permission for its distribution in Scid, and out of
>> courtesy I ask that if you make use of the tablebase code outside
>> of Scid, please ask Eugene first. His email address is at the end of
>> the file src/egtb/probe.txt.
>> ************************
>>
>> What do you think about Nalimov code? I am sure that this code is not
>> accepted in Fedora, but RPMFusion guys asked me to clarify that
>> question here.
>
> Well, what I would do is to send Eugene Nalimov an email asking him for
> the licensing terms for his tablebase decoding code. Specifically, we
> want to know what the terms are for:
>
> * use
> * modification
> * redistribution
>
> For sanity sake, suggesting the GPL would also be a good idea.
>
> ~spot

I wrote to Eugene Nalimov but didn't received any response. Could you
make a conclusion based on available facts?

Mikhail Kalenkov.