Re: [gnugo-devel] Use of Gnugo and Goban on the AGA CD and in a book

[Arend Bayer]

Dear Peter Shotwell,

> I am the author of "Go! More Than a Game" (Tuttle 2004) and am now writing a 
> second book for Tuttle. It will include the American Go Association CD-ROM 
> and I am currently updating it with the webmaster, Roy Laird. Besides 
> something from Gnugo, we would like to include Goban for Mac users. 
> 
> The problem is, we need written permission for everything we put on it but I 
> am confused about what this means for gnugo projects in general and for 
> Goban. Also, about which versions of Gnugo to use for the strongest 9x9 
> program.

You don't need written permission for GNU Go. GNU Go comes with the GPL
as license, which allows you to redistribute it if you follow
some rules. In your case, you would be fine if you include the GNU Go
source code on the CD, the license itself (the file "COPYING" in the GNU
Go sources), and a note somewhere on the CD that GNU Go is licensed
under GPL.

About the version, I would suggest 3.7.3.

> Another thing that would be helpful is to be put on a mailing list for 
> updates that might apply as we keep the disk current in the coming years.

On http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/mailing_lists.html you could
sign-up for gnugo-announce, which would inform you about a new version
once every 1-2 months.

Best,
Arend