[Fedora-legal-list] Crafty chess program license

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 09/23/2010 03:35 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>  *  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.                                   *

This license is clearly non-free, for a number of reasons, and I'm
rather surprised that Debian includes it (well, I'm not really
surprised, but this isn't even close to being Free).

Not acceptable for Fedora, sorry. Please let me know if you want me to
open a dialog with the upstream about possible relicensing.

~spot