[Fedora-legal-list] Crafty chess program license

Lukas Zapletal lukas at zapletalovi.com
Thu Sep 23 19:35:51 UTC 2010


Hello,

can you please help me with the following license text from Crafty
chess program? I think its BSD-like or MIT-like license. I would like
to create Fedora package for it. Its very nice and strong chess
engine. It should be ok (its distributed with Debian) but I would like
to have official explicit confirmation. I do not know which "license
string" should I put in the RPM spec file.

Thank you.

The license can be found in the source distribution in the file main.c.

http://www.craftychess.com/
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/source/crafty-23.3.zip

 *  Crafty, copyright 1996-2010 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor *
 *  of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Crafty is a team project consisting of the following members.  These are   *
 *  the people involved in the continuing development of this program, there   *
 *  are no particular members responsible for any specific aspect of Crafty.   *
 *                                                                             *
 *     Michael Byrne, Pen Argyle, PA.                                          *
 *     Robert Hyatt, University of Alabama at Birmingham.                      *
 *     Tracy Riegle, Hershey, PA.                                              *
 *     Peter Skinner, Edmonton, AB  Canada.                                    *
 *     Ted Langreck                       .                                    *
 *                                                                             *
 *  All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any     *
 *  form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the        *
 *  express written permission of the authors.  This program may not be used   *
 *  in whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without     *
 *  written permission from the authors.  Such permission will include the     *
 *  requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that    *
 *  the program's ancestry will be known.                                      *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Copies of the source must contain the original copyright notice intact.    *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Any changes made to this software must also be made public to comply with  *
 *  the original intent of this software distribution project.  These          *
 *  restrictions apply whether the distribution is being done for free or as   *
 *  part or all of a commercial product.  The authors retain sole ownership    *
 *  and copyright on this program except for 'personal use' explained below.   *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Personal use includes any use you make of the program yourself, either by  *
 *  playing games with it yourself, or allowing others to play it on your      *
 *  machine,  and requires that if others use the program, it must be clearly  *
 *  identified as "Crafty" to anyone playing it (on a chess server as one      *
 *  example).  Personal use does not allow anyone to enter this into a chess   *
 *  tournament where other program authors are invited to participate.  IE you *
 *  can do your own local tournament, with Crafty + other programs, since this *
 *  is for your personal enjoyment.  But you may not enter Crafty into an      *
 *  event where it will be in competition with other programs/programmers      *
 *  without permission as stated previously.                                   *



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S pozdravem / Best regards
  Lukas Zapletal



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