Re: [gnugo-devel] trevor_1_15.4

[Dave Denholm]

Daniel Bump <address@hidden> writes:

> > To the best of my knowledge, there would not be a copyright problem 
> > with constructing generic patterns to solve problems from collections.
> > I don't intend to distribute the actual problems themselves.
> 
> I didn't actually look at your patch, I just saw the reference
> to Maeda's problem book.
> 
> > Is the copyright concern over distributing the collections, or are
> > you concerned over adding patterns based on testing GNU Go against 
> > problems out of a copyrighted collection?
> 
> Principally we should be aware of the issue and if in doubt err in the side
> of caution.
> 
> > Is the Gokyo Shumyo available in SGF (or any electronic) format?
> 
> Problems from Gokyo Shumyo and other classical sources are in
> Uligo (http://www.g0ertz.de/uligo/classic.html). This is GPL'd
> stuff and Ulrich Goertz was careful about copyright matters.
> 
> David Denholm has looked at Uligo, maybe he can tell us more.


Not from a copyright point of view, I'm afraid...


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