Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site yetti.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!yetti!oz From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: net.chess,net.games Subject: Re: Portable chess program Message-ID: <228@yetti.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:11:27 EDT Article-I.D.: yetti.228 Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:11:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:05:26 EDT References: <146@polyof.UUCP> <147@polyof.UUCP> Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Distribution: net Organization: York University Computer Science Lines: 30 Xref: utcs net.chess:827 net.games:1962 Summary: In article <147@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes: >I have received at least a hundred requests for my portable chess program >written in C. I would have gladly posted it to net.sources, but there are >some problems with doing that. It is quite illegal. I had plumb forgotten >about the licensing end of chess. The original chess sources were included >with V6 and V7, and as such, were part of those license agreements. I am not sure if there is any licensing restrictions. The chess program distributed with V6 and V7 has been around a looong time, *in public domain*, and could be found on many a RSX-11/RT-11 decus tapes. Just the fact that Bell included in their distribution *does not* give the rights to that chess program to Bell. I would gladly post at least one *slighly* improved version of that program in PDP-11 assembler to net. It is found in the Joint European RSX-SIG and European VAX SIG tape (Amsterdam 1980). In fact, the very same chess program is found in our HSC-50 !! (cute! very cute !!!) I could probably dig up the original as well, as found on RSX-11 systems. Perhaps somebody from Bell could enlighten me as to the origins of V6/V7 chess. If they claim rights to it, fine, I will post all the versions of the RSX-11 chess, which is likely to be quite identical to V6/V7 chess. You could simply assume that the C version is generated from one of these !!! You could let AT&T worry about suing the rest of the world. -- __ O Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz / /\___ Bitnet: oz@[yuleo|yuyetti] . ------------------------- / \ Support GNU. Consider the 3-musketeers' motto: / --+ ONE FOR ALL - ALL FOR ONE /