SCID (Shane's Chess Information Database) is a fantastic chess program. I
used it briefly on my previous installation before I discovered the present
problem. The program itself is licensed under the GPL (for which reason I can
link to it), but it contains a few non-free portions. The COPYING file in the
source download states:
> The only files in Scid NOT distributed under the GPL (since they have a
different author and copyright, but they are freely distributable) are the
Zlib library (see the src/zlib directory), a Tcl package for sending email
using SMTP (see the tcl/ezsmtp directory), and endgame tablebase decoding
source code (see the src/egtb directory).
> Please note: although there is no explicit copyright notice in the
tablebase decoding code, all rights are reserved by its author
Eugene Nalimov and you should ask for permission before using it.
He has granted permission for its distribution in Scid, and out of
courtesy I ask that if you make use of the tablebase code outside
of Scid, please ask Eugene first. His email address is at the end of
the file src/egtb/probe.txt.
I researched the TCL package and found it to be free software, but clearly I
need to get rid of the endgame code before I compile the program. But I can't
for the life of me figure out what code to edit to do this. I would
appreciate the help of the more programmatic on these forums.
