Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued

Re:Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Get... by dominicjj on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:01AM (#27905127)

>4. Stockfish can't unilaterally terminate someone's license to the code.

Sure it can. It's the copyright holder.

>they almost seem to be hinging their entire case on this one point.

It has nothing to do with the network weights. Fat Fritz and Houdini are derivative works of Stockfish. Fat Fritz may be compliant with the GPL 3.0 (after being reported for violation) but Houdini certainly isn't.

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Re:Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Get... by sillysaurusx on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:08AM (#27905191)

There's a 30 day window to cure violations: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/3597f19...

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Re:Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Get... by eertami on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:37AM (#27905441)

They said in their blog post that they've already tried to remedy this with no success.

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