I have in my hands Thomas McBurney's QB64 chess program.
(Deep Basic Chess.bas)
It is good: I lose the games to it. And the user interface is good.
I would love to author an ICT magazine article on that program,
naturally praising it, and, also praising the QB64 system :).
To my knowledge, according to the international and the U.S. law:
1. I must write that the source of the program is the QB64 community,
and mention the www meeting, qb64.org.
2. I must write that the copyright, and, all the intellectual rights
of that program belong to Thomas Burney, or, since he is dead, to
certain relatives. Hence, exemplaris gratis, selling that program by
someone outsider is illegal.
3. I must mention that the article and the commentary to the BASIC
code are mine, but the entire software is the intellectual creation of
T. McB.
4. I think I must mention all of this to the QB64 community, and ask
their opinion about the above-mentioned business, and preferably ask
for the opinion of the owner(s) of the legal intellectual rights, for
their opinion about authoring an ICT magazine article on the BASIC
chess program. Is it, legally, in the public domain?
Any comments, or opinions?
cheers, Dr Antti Ylikoski
The EU
