Re: [gnugo-devel] GUI that can play Gnu Go

[Rui Jiang]

Thanks for your detailed answer. I am going to modify my homepage
accordingly as soon as possible.

I was looking at GNU Go 3.4 and didn't find any doc for GTP. That's the
reason why I was still using the GMP, which is really weird. But now I have
seen a full doc for GTP in latest version.

I will not put the binary in my setup, instead, I am still going to provide
a seperate download for user to easily access.

By the way, this is something I found in GNU Go. In version 3.5.4 I
downloaded, patterns library won't compile in VC 6. The compiler complains
out of memory. I have looked at the project setting and found that the
memory allocation limit setting is:

/Zm1000

According to VC6's doc, this is to say to use 1000% memory than normal to
build it. Maybe it just tries to allocate such amount of memory in the
beginning, which is probably going to fail.

I have changed it to /Zm200 and it works fine.

Thanks,
Rui

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Pogonyshev" <address@hidden>
To: "Rui Jiang" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [gnugo-devel] GUI that can play Gnu Go


> > I am the author of the free SGF viewer/editor -- MultiGo.
>
> Please, pay attention to the difference between "free" and "freeware".
> This is especially important if you are going to distribute GNU Go,
> which _is_ free software.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
>
> > In the next version of MultiGo, I have added the feature that users
> > can play with Gnu Go through GMP. Is it OK to provide local download
> > of Gnu Go on my webpage? Also, is it OK to pack Gnu Go executable in
> > the setup of MultiGo?
>
> Yes, it is OK, but there are conditions.  First of all, you will need
> to state in a clean way that GNU Go is a separate program, licensed
> under GNU GPL (with a link, e.g. to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
> You must also mention that it is copyrighted by Free Software Foundation.
>
> Next, you must place GNU Go sources of the very same version used to
> build binary (executable) on your site.  You don't need to force users
> to download the sources (i.e. binary-only downloads are absolutely OK),
> but if a user chooses to download sources, you must provide him with
> a way to do so.
>
> You can put GNU Go binary in your setup utility, but again, you need to
> provide all the information mentioned above somewhere in a visible place.
> I.e.,  information about license and copyright and information about where
> a user can get the sources (either from your site or from GNU Go site).
>
> I see that you already provide GNU Go download.  Please, do add what is
> listed above to be GNU GPL compliant.  Also, please change the links to
> GNU Go main and development pages to
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/devel.html
>
> respectively.
>
> We would appreciate if you change "Gnu Go" strings to "GNU Go".  That's
> how the program is named.
>
> Finally, regarding GMP.  You have chosen a wrong protocol.  If you ever
> feel like improving GNU Go support in your program, have a look at GTP,
> which is considerably simpler than GMP yet provides way more
> functionality.  See
>
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/
>
> Paul
>