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by dominicjj 1800 days ago
>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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There's a 30 day window to cure violations: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/3597f19...
They said in their blog post that they've already tried to remedy this with no success.