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What does this mean in practice. Is there a tl;dr; of the outcome PDF? Did the sued company release their software under GPL?
by jesprenj 4y ago
What does this mean in practice. Is there a tl;dr; of the outcome PDF?
Did the sued company release their software under GPL?
- gjm11 4y agoThe article itself summarizes the outcome and is only four paragraphs long. ChessBase (1) are no longer offering for sale "Fat Fritz 2" and "Houdini" (which contain GPL code from Stockfish), (2) undertake only ever to distribute those products or any others based on Stockfish under the terms of the GPL (which in particular means making source code available), and (3) are going to have a "Free Software Compliance Officer" and a website on which they list products of theirs that make use of free and open-source software, and provide whatever downloads they are required to. Their licence to distribute Stockfish code at all gets reinstated in one year; until then the only thing they're allowed to do is to provide downloads to customers who have already bought Fat Fritz 2 or Houdini, on GPL-compliant terms.
- jesprenj 4y agoThank you! Are they are using Stockfish pro bono for existing customers, or is it under GPL?