"Ian Fellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > It is my understanding that LOKI was never distributed as a proprietary > or open source bot. Is it against the terms of the license to use the bot > for personal or academic purposes if you don't distribute the software to > third parties? POKI on the other hand was incorporated into poker academy, > and so was sparbot (PSIOPTI). Both of these use hand strength and potential > calculations that were at least originally based on this library. I'm sure > that the poker academy crew duplicated the functionality when they turned > into published software. It is my (naive uneducated) understanding that you > can do whatever you want with the library if you don't distribute your work. > Thus, I don't see any conflicts with submitting something with components of > pokersource to the AAAI competition. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You are wrong, but it's a common mistake and it's very easy to fix when dealing with Free Software. In copyright law, publishing a software or distributing it means you hand it to someone else. To someone that is not you. As a rule of thumb, think that each time you deliberately avoid sharing the software with someone else, you go against the spirit encapsulated in the GNU GPL. And therefore it is polite, in addition of being respectful of legal terms, to not avoid sharing, even if you think you could. If you'd like to talk about the specific legal implications, I'm open for discussion. I'm currently dealing with a major GNU GPL violation court case in France ( http://freebox.flouzo.net/ ) and all the details are fresh in my mind ;-) Again, mistakes are easily fixed and everybody wins. Cheers, -- +33 1 76 60 72 81 Loic Dachary mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latitude: 48.86962325498033 Longitude: 2.3623046278953552 _______________________________________________ Pokersource-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pokersource-users
