Arasan Chess Engine
Copyright 1994-2015 Jon Dart
LICENSE
Arasan chess engine software, including the contents of the src, book, doc, prj, and tests directories of the software archive, is distributed under the following License:
Copyright 1994-2015 Jon Dart
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Notes:
The source code for Arasan includes optional support for both Gaviota and Nalimov tablebases. Nalimov tablebase support requires use of the egtb.cpp file, which is copyrighted by Eugene Nalimov, and the tbdecode.h file, copyrighted by Andrew Katatch. These files are no longer distributed with the Arasan source. However, Arasan binaries provided by Jon Dart include the Nalimov tablebase support.
Gaviota tablebase probing code is available separately, under the same license used by the Arasan chess engine, from Miguel Ballicora or from arasanchess.org.
The Arasan user interface, source of which is in the "gui" directory of the Windows source archive, relies on copyrighted chess fonts and is not included under this license.
The Arasan Windows GUI (binary and source) and Arasan chess engine binaries from Jon Dart may be freely distributed, provided that:
1. They are distributed in unmodified form.2. No more than a nominal fee is charged for copying or media.