Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license

[MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>]

Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>
> The chess tablebase files are generated by the Gaviota Engine whose
> license is clearly not DFSG compatible. However, the author is
> releasing the generated database files under the MIT license. Is the
> MIT license for these database files DFSG compatible?  [...]

Yes, MIT/X11 is DFSG-compatible and http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses
says similar licences are already in the archive.

The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic.

Thanks for asking,
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