I dropped on this purely by accident and if I have followed up
incorrectly I apologise. There is very old legal precedence that the
reporting of public sporting events and the scores etc of the games is
in the public domain. Once you have made a move in chess (or played a
shot in a cricket match wh
David Starner wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:20:52PM +0200, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> > However, the gnuchess book consists of raw game scores, so my conclusion
> > is that it is not subject to copyright and it is in the public domain. (As
> > far as I know, the gnuchess book was not put togethe
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:20:52PM +0200, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> However, the gnuchess book consists of raw game scores, so my conclusion
> is that it is not subject to copyright and it is in the public domain. (As
> far as I know, the gnuchess book was not put together with some "unique
> criteria",
On 13 Apr 2002, Henning Makholm wrote:
> The more difficult problem is the legal status of each individual game
> itself? Do the chess players who played it have a sort of copyright?
> Surely, they have made real intellectual decisions about which piece
> to move where, but is that a decision abou
Scripsit Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Get him to clarify it absolutely, telling him it's a very big issue for
> Debian, and don't upload till you have the official word from him.
I don't think the problem is that easy. Sure, the guy who collected
the game may (in some jurisdictions) have sort
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 12:28, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> I think uncommented Chess games are effectively free of
> copyright restrictions. They are collaborative performance art
> or some such bizarre legal status.
>
> I probably ought to clarify the legal position and add it to the
> FAQ.
>
>
I am just working on repackaging gnuchess to split it into gnuchess and
gnuchess-book. The problem with gnuchess-book is that it is basically a
large collection of uncommented chess games in PGN format. It used to be
included in gnuchess but now it has been separated mainly due to its size.
However
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