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Re: [computer-go] future KGS Computer Go Tournaments - two sections?

On May 12, 2005, at 02:15, bump wrote:



I believe that unless the GNU Go team principals explicitely
disagrees, derivatives such as SlugGo should be allowed.




Speaking for myself alone, I think that the tournament
director's decisions must be respected.  Another tournament
with another tournament director might have a different policy.




Oh definitely, and that was something I said early on. The tournament  
organizer should have the right to invit or not who he wants.



But I strongly disagree with some of the rationalization that has  
been put forward to somehow explain or automate the decision:  
quantification of the effort involved, exclusion of derivatives...



But here I was wondering about another factor: what do you, GNU Go  
authors think. I was also wondering if the GPL covers the public use  
of a privately modified of software. Well... not really, but not far:



From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods :



"A company is running a modified version of a GPL'ed program on a web  
site. Does the GPL say they must release their modified sources?



The GPL permits anyone to make a modified version and use it without  
ever distributing it to others. What this company is doing is a  
special case of that. Therefore, the company does not have to release  
the modified sources.



It is essential for people to have the freedom to make modifications  
and use them privately, without ever publishing those modifications.  
However, putting the program on a server machine for the public to  
talk to is hardly "private" use, so it would be legitimate to require  
release of the source code in that special case. We are thinking  
about doing something like this in GPL version 3, but we don't have  
precise wording in mind yet.



In the mean time, you might want to use the Affero GPL for programs  
designed for network server use."



It seems that authorizing GNU Go derivatives playing and being  
observed on a network could be decided by you, with a little work on  
the license. Only free derivatives could be authorized by you, and  
being free, a more informed decision could be made by the TD in each  
case.





marco



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