[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 16:31 -0600, Markus Enzenberger wrote:
> Gunnar, if you are listening, what is indeed missing is a statement on the GTP 
> page, that GTP is an open standard and can be used free of royalty by 
> everyone.

It says it right in the spec:

"8.4 Licensing
Anyone may use this protocol for any purpose without any restrictions. 

This document may be copied, modified, and distributed according to the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, included in section 10.

While this in theory allows anyone to create modified protocol
specifications, which could potentially lead to great chaos, that would
benefit noone and we trust people not be that stupid.

The reason why we allow modification at all is to make sure that new
authors can continue evolving the protocol if previous authors
disappear, without having to rewrite everything from scratch.

People who want to use this protocol as a basis for development of some
other protocol are most welcome to start from this protocol
specification."