Dispute over GPL could be headed to court
Israeli open source software developer Alexander Maryanovsky has filed a lawsuit against international master chess player Alexander Rabinovich alleging that the chess player and his organization have violated the GPL. According to Maryanovsky, it started when Rabinovich started a company, International Chess University (IChessU), with the intention of teaching chess to students over the Internet using interactive software. Rather than develop a framework from scratch, Rabinovich decided to use Jin, Maryanovsky's network chess client application. Maryanovsky offered Rabinovich a $4,000 license that would facilitate proprietary redistribution. Rabinovich turned down the licensing offer, and said that IChessU would use the program and simply comply with the terms of the GPL.
IChessU has released the source code of its application, with the exception of an external library developed by third party developers that adds support for voice and video chat.
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