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by FartyMcFarter 1791 days ago
> I don't think that prevents somebody sympathetic (if such a person exists) from re-distributing it to Chessbase though.

Would this be legal?
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greenshackle2 1791 days ago
No. Stockfish owns the copyright to their code. You can't copy stockfish code without a license from stockfish. There's no provision in the GPL for some third party to re-grant a GPL license to someone else after their license was terminated.
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gnud 1791 days ago
Don't think it's a problem to give them the code, as long as your own license isn't terminated.

But it would be a breach of copyright for Chessbase to distribute or modify the code, after their license has been terminated.

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