Re: The Bauhaus chess font in SCID
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:18 am
Hagen, thanks for your kind words. It means a lot.
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I am not so sure the highlighted section is correct.2097 wrote:Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I didn’t know about this.
I designed this 2d-representation of Hartwig’s classic Bauhaus style chess set (without permission from Hartwig, because, well, he died) and submitted it to SCID.
I made it in the special format that SCID’s source code uses, which is bitmap images (as great as this style would be for a vector-style font design).
As far as I’m concerned, it’s available under the same terms as SCID itself, and there is no need to ask me for permission. These terms are the GNU General Public License.
It’s also possible to have a more restrictive view on this (depending on how you view Hartwig’s claims to this design, since it’s similar to his block pieces), or a less restrictive view (if you think your usage falls into fair use).
For the specific question about using these with »Chessbase« (I’m not familiar with that program)—if you want to distribute them with Chessbase, Chessbase would have to be GPL also. If you want to just use them at home, that’s of course fine, if you find a way to do it technically.
TL;DR: They’re available under the same terms as SCID itself, no need to ask me permission.
Sandra