Copyright for crafty source package in Mantic

This package was debianized by Eric Van Buggenhaut
 on
Sun,  8 Oct 2000 23:42:00 +0100.

It is now maintained by: 
Oliver Korff   Thu, 14 May 2009 20:35:14 +0200

It was downloaded from http://www.cctchess.com

As of version 22.10, the source was downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/source/

Upstream Author: Robert M. Hyatt 

Copyright:

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 *                                                                             *
 *  Crafty, copyright 1996-2009 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor *
 *  of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Crafty is a team project consisting of the following members.  These are   *
 *  the people involved in the continuing development of this program, there   *
 *  are no particular members responsible for any specific aspect of Crafty.   *
 *                                                                             *
 *     Michael Byrne, Pen Argyle, PA.                                          *
 *     Robert Hyatt, University of Alabama at Birmingham.                      *
 *     Tracy Riegle, Houston, TX.                                              *
 *     Peter Skinner, Edmonton, AB  Canada.                                    *
 *     Ted Langreck                       .                                    *
 *                                                                             *
 *  All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any     *
 *  form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the        *
 *  express written permission of the authors.  This program may not be used   *
 *  in whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without     *
 *  written permission from the authors.  Such permission will include the     *
 *  requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that    *
 *  the program's ancestry will be known.                                      *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Copies of the source must contain the original copyright notice intact.    *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Any changes made to this software must also be made public to comply with  *
 *  the original intent of this software distribution project.  These          *
 *  restrictions apply whether the distribution is being done for free or as   *
 *  part or all of a commercial product.  The authors retain sole ownership    *
 *  and copyright on this program except for 'personal use' explained below.   *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Personal use includes any use you make of the program yourself, either by  *
 *  playing games with it yourself, or allowing others to play it on your      *
 *  machine,  and requires that if others use the program, it must be clearly  *
 *  identified as "Crafty" to anyone playing it (on a chess server as one      *
 *  example).  Personal use does not allow anyone to enter this into a chess   *
 *  tournament where other program authors are invited to participate.  IE you *
 *  can do your own local tournament, with Crafty + other programs, since this *
 *  is for your personal enjoyment.  But you may not enter Crafty into an      *
 *  event where it will be in competition with other programs/programmers      *
 *  without permission as stated previously.                                   *
 *                                                                             *
 *  Crafty is the "son" (direct descendent) of Cray Blitz.  it is designed     *
 *  totally around the bit-board data structure for reasons of speed of ex-    *
 *  ecution, ease of adding new knowledge, and a *significantly* cleaner       *
 *  overall design.  it is written totally in ANSI C with some few UNIX system *
 *  calls required for I/O, etc.                                               *

Debian has received written permission in the form of an e-mail from
Professor Hyatt:

Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> 
> you have my permission to distribute this code just as you did
> before.  I am only trying to stop people from copying the source
> and then calling it their own and entering it into chess tournamennts,
> something that has now happened at least 3 times...
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences
> hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham
> (205) 934-2213                  115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
> (205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170


On Thu 14. Mai 22:13:48 CEST 2009 autobuilding was requested 
by Oliver Korff  of nonfree@release.debian.net, 
this is the mail snippet:

...
I would like to request autobuilding crafty. The licence is strictly non-free, 
but we have the explicit written permission to redistribute of the upstream 
author.

I have had contact with him recently and am convinced that the reason for 
making it non-free, is the code abuse in computer chess tournaments as 
mentioned in the copyright file.

We also do not alter craftys name or copyright notice, so everything that 
matters to the upstream author stays intact. Autobuilding does not interfere 
with that.
...


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*                                                                             *
*  Crafty, copyrighted 1996 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor    *
*  of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. *
*                                                                             *
*  All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any     *
*  form or by any means, for any commercial (for profit/sale) reasons.  This  *
*  program may be freely distributed, used, and modified, so long as such use *
*  does not in any way result in the sale of all or any part of the source,   *
*  the executables, or other distributed materials that are a part of this    *
*  package.  any changes made to this program must also be made public in     *
*  the spirit that the original source is distributed.                        *
*                                                                             *
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Does this copyright mean Crafty cannot be redistributed by the usual
Debian CD redistributors?  Well, I asked Prof. Hyatt this exact
question via e-mail.  The conversation was as follows:

> Third, I have some questions regarding the extent to which you'll
> allow Debian to distribute Crafty.  As I'm sure you know, Debian puts
> all of its available software packages on its FTP server and freely
> distributes them.  Because Debian is available for free, many
> companies put Debian on a CD and distribute the CD -- for a profit.  
> Some of the companies donate part of the proceeds to help Debian or 
> GNU or Linux in general.  The cheapest version of the CD that I'm
> aware of is CheapBytes's at http://www.cheapbytes.com/.  They are  
> selling "Debian 1.2 Plus 2 CD-ROM Linux Archive Set" for $5.99.
> 

not a problem with me at all...


> Many programmers do not want their product sold by these CD
> distributors.  So, Debian maintains two different sets of software
> packages.  The first set (called the "Main Distribution") is for the
> packages which come with no copyright restrictions.  Thus, the CD
> manufacturers assume they can distribute the entire first set without
> having to check the individual copyrights of each package separately.
> The second set (called "Non-Free") is for the packages with   
> restrictions on distribution which put the CD manufacturers on notice
> that they probably shouldn't distribute the package, and if they do,
> they'll need to closely check the restrictions.
> 
> From what I have read in "main.c", you will allow Debian to *freely*
> distribute the Crafty source or executable.  However, you do not want
> people selling Crafty as part of a CD package or otherwise.  If this 
> is correct, I will put Crafty in the "Non-Free" section.
> 

no...  I simply don't want someone to market crafty as a chess program.
Including it with something else is fine, knowing that there will be
newer (and better) versions for free on my ftp machine anyway.  I put
that restriction in because there was a company that was making waves
about "Crafty is just too strong to be free, we are going to modify it
a little and then sell it..."