[gnugo-devel] tournament at US Go Congress - SlugGo needs permission

[David Doshay]

Hello All,

For those who do not read the computer go email reflector:

There will be a computer Go tournament at the US Go Congress in  
Portland Oregon. I hope that at least one GNU Go primary author will  
be at the Congress and will enter GNU Go in the tournament.

My foundation (HSRF) has offered $1,000 in prize money and another  
donor has added $250. Tournament rules require derivative programs  
like SlugGo to obtain the explicit permission of the original authors  
of any included code. I do not believe that the GPL is sufficient.  
This is similar to, but slightly less restrictive than, the rules for  
the Formal division of the KGS monthly tournaments. The KGS rules are  
that derivative programs and the original program cannot both be  
entered in the Formal division of the same monthly tournament. I am  
asking for such permission from you so that I can enter SlugGo at the  
Go Congress.

I do not intend to enter SlugGo for the cash prizes, just for  
tournament standing, but this is pending a final OK from the TD.

For those unfamiliar, SlugGo is an academic project at the University  
of California at Santa Cruz supported by HSRF. I am more than willing  
to discuss SlugGo's architecture and use of GNU Go code, and to show  
the source to anyone who wants to see it. The SlugGo code that wraps  
GNU Go is not covered by the GPL, but by a license that distinguishes  
between academic/research use and commercial use.



Cheers,
David