Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license

2013-06-05 Thread MJ Ray
Varun Hiremath va...@debian.org The chess tablebase files are generated by the Gaviota Engine whose license is clearly not DFSG compatible. However, the author is releasing the generated database files under the MIT license. Is the MIT license for these database files DFSG compatible? [...]

Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license

2013-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they should go to contrib though, due to the non-free build-dep? -- bye, pabs

Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license

2013-06-05 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Wise p...@debian.org On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they should go to contrib though, due to the non-free build-dep?

Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license

2013-06-05 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hi! MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop writes: Paul Wise pabs at debian.org On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they

Advice regarding chess engine database files license

2013-06-03 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hello All, I am considering packaging Gaviota chess tablebase files and probing code for Debian released under this MIT license: https://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/license The chess tablebase files are generated by the Gaviota Engine whose license is clearly not DFSG compatible.