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Date: 22 Jun 2006 04:52:42
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Subject: Good Chess Graphics?
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Hello,
Does anyone know where I can get some good (and free) chess graphics?
I'm looking for pictures of pieces that can be used in games or in my
chess diagram tool ChessUp (http://chessup.net).
Vector graphics that scale would be great (I'd like to be able to
create small and medium size images).
I've searched Google without much luck. Are the graphics for XBoard
and WinBoard available for use?
Thanks
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Date: 22 Jun 2006 18:02:59
From: Paolo Casaschi
Subject: Re: Good Chess Graphics?
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I'd suggest using a chess font as you can find in
http://www.enpassant.dk/
under many different license conditions (from freeware)
-- Paolo
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know where I can get some good (and free) chess graphics?
> I'm looking for pictures of pieces that can be used in games or in my
> chess diagram tool ChessUp (http://chessup.net).
>
> Vector graphics that scale would be great (I'd like to be able to
> create small and medium size images).
>
> I've searched Google without much luck. Are the graphics for XBoard
> and WinBoard available for use?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Date: 22 Jun 2006 12:41:15
From: Ari Makela
Subject: Re: Good Chess Graphics?
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On 2006-06-22, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote:
> I've searched Google without much luck. Are the graphics for XBoard
> and WinBoard available for use?
eboard has GPL licensed images so if GPL is ok for you you're free to
use those images. The original xboard license is very liberal:
The original xboard package:
Copyright (C) 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the name of Digital not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission.
DIGITAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
EVENT SHALL DIGITAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
but the Debian xboard package also states:
Enhancements:
Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL".
It makes we wonder what enhancements are we talking about. But again, if
GPL is not a problem for you you can use any part of xboard.
--
Ari Makela late autumn -
[email protected] a single chair waiting
http://arska.org/hauva/ for someone yet to come
-- Arima Akito
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Date: 23 Jun 2006 06:04:01
From: Simon Waters
Subject: Re: Good Chess Graphics?
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:41:15 +0000, Ari Makela wrote:
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> use those images. The original xboard license is very liberal:
I think it is clarified somewhat by comments in the Changlogs and the
FAQ in the source. Which amongst other things make clear that the images
it uses are distributed under the GPL.
> It makes we wonder what enhancements are we talking about. But again, if
> GPL is not a problem for you you can use any part of xboard.
ChangeLog.2 notes that GNU GPL applied to enhancements to version 2, so
presumably all version 3 stuff was under the GNU GPL. I'm sure Tim could
tell us more if he had a reason to.
Since the images are bitmaps anyway, I suspect the OP won't care what the
licence is, as he clearly wanted vector graphics.
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