This is an interesting resolution to a open source software case. No monetary compensation, even for legal fees. Instead, a disclaimer must be added everywhere mentioning that the products (Houdini 6 and Fat Fritz 2) are derived from open source software and that they are not allowed to distribute them or any other derivatives for a year. Futhermore, they must hire a “Free Software Compliance Officer”.
Quite a different result than previous lawsuits I’ve heard about. It seems that the Stockfish authors care more about the recognition and continued sanctity of the license rather than punishing ChessBase.
indeed, that’s why I posted it here despite not being sure if it was relevant and confirmed by the initial downvote :)
I used to hate the copyleft licenses because of their viral nature but having seen companies leeching the work of open-source developers, I’ve come around to using MPL 2 for libraries and GPL 2 for applications.
This is an interesting resolution to a open source software case. No monetary compensation, even for legal fees. Instead, a disclaimer must be added everywhere mentioning that the products (Houdini 6 and Fat Fritz 2) are derived from open source software and that they are not allowed to distribute them or any other derivatives for a year. Futhermore, they must hire a “Free Software Compliance Officer”.
Quite a different result than previous lawsuits I’ve heard about. It seems that the Stockfish authors care more about the recognition and continued sanctity of the license rather than punishing ChessBase.
indeed, that’s why I posted it here despite not being sure if it was relevant and confirmed by the initial downvote :)
I used to hate the copyleft licenses because of their viral nature but having seen companies leeching the work of open-source developers, I’ve come around to using MPL 2 for libraries and GPL 2 for applications.