Re: Good Chess Graphics?

On 2006-06-22, spacerook@xxxxxxxxx <spacerook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've searched Google without much luck. Are the graphics for XBoard
and WinBoard available for use?

eboard has GPL licensed images so if GPL is ok for you you're free to
use those images. The original xboard license is very liberal:

The original xboard package:

Copyright (C) 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts

All Rights Reserved

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the name of Digital not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission.

DIGITAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
EVENT SHALL DIGITAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

but the Debian xboard package also states:

Enhancements:

Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL".

It makes we wonder what enhancements are we talking about. But again, if
GPL is not a problem for you you can use any part of xboard.

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Ari Makela late autumn -
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http://arska.org/hauva/ for someone yet to come
-- Arima Akito
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