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by **Alejandro Dubrovsky** » 13 Jun 2002, 01:17

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 02:17:39:
Since it can be tedious going through every homepage checking for source code, i thought it would be good to have a list of engines with source code (and preferably license) and maybe post it somewhere (if noone with a proper site wants to put this up, i'll put it on mine, and check for bandwidth). I know only of very few but i think it would be easiest for the authors to fill this in. Of course, if this list already exists somewhere, a pointer would be great.
Here it goes:
crafty (proprietary)
GNU Chess (GPL)
Resp (GPL)
Small Potato (GPL)
ColChess (proprietary)
KnightCap (many, mostly proprietary??)
Phalanx XXII (GPL)
Sjeng-free (the 11.x series, GPL)
bce (aka BACE, proprietary)
Beowulf (proprietary)
Faile (MIT license)
Gerbil (GPL)
Pepito (GPL)
Pierre (proprietary)
(add here)
Thank you

by **Dann Corbit** » 13 Jun 2002, 01:58

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 13 June 2002 02:58:24:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: which programs have opened their source? geschrieben von: / posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 02:17:39:

Since it can be tedious going through every homepage checking for source code, i thought it would be good to have a list of engines with source code (and preferably license) and maybe post it somewhere (if noone with a proper site wants to put this up, i'll put it on mine, and check for bandwidth). I know only of very few but i think it would be easiest for the authors to fill this in. Of course, if this list already exists somewhere, a pointer would be great.
Here it goes:
crafty (proprietary)
GNU Chess (GPL)
Resp (GPL)
Small Potato (GPL)
ColChess (proprietary)
KnightCap (many, mostly proprietary??)
Phalanx XXII (GPL)
Sjeng-free (the 11.x series, GPL)
bce (aka BACE, proprietary)
Beowulf (proprietary)
Faile (MIT license)
Gerbil (GPL)
Pepito (GPL)
Pierre (proprietary)
(add here)

There are a few besides these:
http://wbholmes.de/linkse_e.htm
[Pascal source {maybe some only I have -- not sure}]:
Betsy by Landon W. Rabern
Chess 2000 by Alistair Keys
Knightware Goliath Chess3D {not sure who the author is}
KC Chess by Craig Bruce and Kevin Phillips
Lasker 1.0, Copyright 1990-93 by Rüde Softworks & Chaos Company
Anschrift: Rüdiger Pein
Gruberstraße 16
D-85551 Kirchheim
Maim by Jason Allen Doucette
Nero by Jari Huikari
echecs by someone French with initials J. K.
RDChess by Rudolf Posch
Schachkomponenten by auerswald.uwe@t-online.de
ssechess (older version) by Sam Slutsky
TSCP pascal port (can't remember the author)
zzzzzz5 by gijsbert.wiesenekker@wxs.nl
In BASIC, I only have these:
Directory of E:\pgn\WINBOA~1\basic
06/11/2002 10:14p .
06/11/2002 10:14p ..
06/11/2002 08:33p 48,872 CHESS [APCS].BAS
06/11/2002 08:55p 57,360 lordx1b.bas
03/06/2002 04:51p 18,879 qbchess.bas
3 File(s) 125,111 bytes
There is a Forth version of TSCP by Ian Osgood
In Fortran, I have these:
Directory of E:\pgn\WINBOA~1\chess-f
01/11/2000 07:49p 24,986 CHESS.F
Directory of E:\pgn\WINBOA~1\CPMUG041
12/15/2000 09:41p 24,473 chess.f
Directory of E:\pgn\WINBOA~1\smart
11/05/1998 05:04p 1,638 TRADIT08.F
Directory of E:\pgn\WINBOA~1\fortran
05/31/1982 12:00a 24,576 F-CHESS.FOR

In C and C++, there are simply too many to list.

My Ftp Site

by **Alejandro Dubrovsky** » 13 Jun 2002, 02:27

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 03:27:03:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: which programs have opened their source? geschrieben von: / posted by: Dann Corbit at 13 June 2002 02:58:24:

by **Allen Lake** » 13 Jun 2002, 03:41

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Allen Lake at 13 June 2002 04:41:44:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: which programs have opened their source? geschrieben von: / posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 02:17:39:

Since it can be tedious going through every homepage checking for source code, i thought it would be good to have a list of engines with source code (and preferably license) and maybe post it somewhere (if noone with a proper site wants to put this up, i'll put it on mine, and check for bandwidth). I know only of very few but i think it would be easiest for the authors to fill this in. Of course, if this list already exists somewhere, a pointer would be great.

It's interesting that you should mention this, since I have been preparing a web site to provide coverage of just this sort of information. The web site isn't ready yet, but I expect it to be ready sometime next week.
Some other engines that I can think of, off the top of my head:
Amy (GPL)
Arasan (proprietary)
Chessterfield (GPL)
EXchess (GPL with exclusions - license.txt and readme.txt files)
Freyr (proprietary)
Gullydeckel (GPL)
Jester (?? -- uses Steven J. Edwards' SAN Kit)
MSCP (GPL)
Olithink (proprietary)
PolarChess v1.2 (proprietary)
Pyotr (proprietary)
RDChess (proprietary)
Skaki (proprietary)
St. Andersen (proprietary)
TSCP (proprietary)
My current plans for my web site are to provide information about and links to open source chess programs and programming tools necessary to build these programs. If anyone in the Winboard community has any ideas for other related items, please feel free to drop me a note.
Allen

by **Peter Fendrich** » 13 Jun 2002, 10:05

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Peter Fendrich at 13 June 2002 11:05:47:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: which programs have opened their source? geschrieben von: / posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 02:17:39:

Since it can be tedious going through every homepage checking for source code, i thought it would be good to have a list of engines with source code (and preferably license) and maybe post it somewhere (if noone with a proper site wants to put this up, i'll put it on mine, and check for bandwidth). I know only of very few but i think it would be easiest for the authors to fill this in. Of course, if this list already exists somewhere, a pointer would be great.
Here it goes:
crafty (proprietary)
GNU Chess (GPL)
Resp (GPL)
Small Potato (GPL)
ColChess (proprietary)
KnightCap (many, mostly proprietary??)
Phalanx XXII (GPL)
Sjeng-free (the 11.x series, GPL)
bce (aka BACE, proprietary)
Beowulf (proprietary)
Faile (MIT license)
Gerbil (GPL)
Pepito (GPL)
Pierre (proprietary)
(add here)
Thank you

What's the differense between these types of licenses?
Peter

by **Alejandro Dubrovsky** » 13 Jun 2002, 13:34

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 13 June 2002 14:34:33:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: which programs have opened their source? geschrieben von: / posted by: Peter Fendrich at 13 June 2002 11:05:47:

What's the differense between these types of licenses?
Peter

proprietary means it belongs to someone in the traditional copyright way (can't copy, redistribute, etc, without explicit permission from the author), and is, from what i've heard, the default license if none is specified.
GPL is the GNU General Public License which basically means copy and do as you please with this, as long as you make whatever you are doing with this GPL too, and make all source freely available. for the full text, refer to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
MIT License means do whatever you please with the software as long as you keep the copyright notice in place.
let me just make clear that IANAL
alejandro

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