Re: [gnugo-devel] Question about patterns

[Daniel Bump]

> I was wondering if the patterns are also under the gnu license since
> it's not source code?

Yes, the patterns are under GPL. The GPL license for the patterns
appears in the files themselves, see any file in the patterns/
directory.

And yes, they are source code. The patterns are fed to a compiler
to produce C code.

>From mkpat.c:

/* Compile one of the pattern databases. This takes a database file,
 * e.g. patterns.db, and produces a C code file, in this case
 * patterns.c.
 */

So the patterns themselves are a sort of language. 

The files that are not under GNU license are gtp.c and gtp.h.
Everything else is GPL 3.

Dan