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From: | Xavier Combelle |
Subject: | Re: [gnugo-devel] endgame module for GNU Go |
Date: | Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:47:37 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) |
Evan Daniel wrote:
I love the opensource concpets, but I'm not sure to understand them in the good wayI think you're misunderstanding something fairly fundamental about the GNU Go project. We are interested in shipping a Free, strong, and easy to use Go playing engine. For a definition of Free Software, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. That the engine is Free is a primary requirement, and something that the GNU Go developers see as such, not merely an added benefit or feature tacked on the side.
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). * The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this I have so the right to use the gnugo as a black box. with a gtp interface and use it as an help to my own program without make my program become GPL. Even if I use the intelligence of gnugo, I don't steal your work as long as my program still work with another gtp engine, and that I don't remove the freedom the gnugo staff gived on his own code.Of course, if I modify gnugo, to fit my needs, and if I distribuate the result, I mus release the code source. but I can still distribute gnugo with my program.
Can you say If I'm wrong somewhere ?
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