Copyright (C) for Arena 3.5
Last update: MB 2014-01-01

License agreements:

You are allowed to download the program package and install it on as many
computers as you like free of charge.

Partner engines:

AnMon 5.75, 
Dragon 4.6, 
Nejmet 3.07, 
SOS 5.1 for Arena, 
Hermann 2.7
ProDeo 1.5
Rybka 2.3 (free) and 
Spike 1.2/1.4

FRC partner engines:

Spike 1.4, 
Betsy 6.51, Chispa 4.03, 
Frenzee 2.00, Hermann 1.5 and 
Aice 0.92

However, distribution or offering of Arena Chess GUI, SOS for Arena, Dragon,
AnMon, Nejmet, Ruffian, Chispa, Hermann, Frenzee, Gaviota
and ELOstat on other webpages, newspaper, CDs, print and other media is only
allowed in unmodified form and with the written permission of their respective
authors Martin Blume, Rudolf Huber, Bruno LUCAS, Christian BARRETEAU,
Jean-Christophe GABILLARD, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Landon W. Rabern, Richard Pijl,
Federico Andrés Corigliano, Sune Fischer, Volker Annuss, Miguel A. Ballicora
and Dr. Frank Schubert.

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Arena Setup = Arena Chess GUI + Engines SOS, AnMon, 
Dragon, Nejmet, Chispa, Hermann, Spike, ProDeo engines.


Copyright Information regarding for Arena GUI:
Copyright (C) 2002-2010
by Martin Blume, Germany.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
Used by permission of Martin Blume.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for SOS for Arena engine:
Arena Setup 1, 2 (UCI engine, main partner engine)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010
by Rudolf Huber, Germany.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
Used by permission of Rudolf Huber.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Pro Deo engine:
Arena Setup 1, 2 (UCI engine)
Copyright (C) 2007-2010
by Ed Schröder, the Netherlands.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.top-5000.nl
Used by permission of Ed Schröder.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Dragon engine:
Arena Setup 2 (UCI engine)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010
by Bruno LUCAS, France.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
Used by permission of Bruno LUCAS.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for AnMon engine:
Arena Setup 2 (UCI engine)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010
by Christian BARRETEAU, France.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
Used by permission of Christian BARRETEAU.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Nejmet engine:
Arena Setup 2 (UCI, WB engine)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010
by Jean-Christophe GABILLARD, France.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://membres.lycos.fr/nejmet/
Used by permission of Jean-Christophe GABILLARD.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Betsy engine:
Arena Setup 3 (FRC engine)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004
by Landon W. Rabern, USA.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~lwr1/
Used by permission of Landon W. Rabern.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for The Baron engine:
Arena Setup 3 (FRC engine)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004
by Richard Pijl, Netherland.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://home.wanadoo.nl/richard.pijl/
Used by permission of Richard Pijl.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Chispa engine:
Arena Setup 3 (FRC, WB engine)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004
by Federico Andrés Corigliano, Argentina.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://www.winboard.info/chispa/
Used by permission of Federico Andrés Corigliano.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Hermann engine:
Arena Setup 2 (UCI, WB engine)
Arena Setup 3 (FRC, UCI, WB engine)
Copyright (C) 2004
by Volker Annuss, Germany
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/
Used by permission of Volker Annuss.
All rights reserved.

Copyright Information regarding for Frenzee engine:
Arena Setup 3 (FRC, WB engine)
Copyright (C) 2004
by Sune Fischer, Denmark
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
http://www.geocities.com/ruleren/
Used by permission of Sune Fischer.
All rights reserved.


Copyright Information regarding for ELOstat:
Tool for an ELO calculation!
Copyright (C) 2002-2005
by Dr. Frank Schubert, Germany.
http://www.playwitharena.com
http://www.playwitharena.co.uk
Used by permission of Dr. Frank Schubert.
All rights reserved.

Copyright:
Arena, SOS for Arena, Pro Deo, Dragon, AnMon, Nejmet, Ruffian, Betsy, The Baron, Chispa,
Hermann, Frenzee, Gothmog and ELOstat themselves are under copyright (German:
"Urheberrecht") for the benefit of their program authors.

Non-commercial:
Arena, SOS for Arena, Pro Deo, Dragon, AnMon, Nejmet, Ruffian 1.x, Betsy, The Baron,
Chispa, Hermann, Frenzee, Gothmog and ELOstat may only be distributed free of
charge. Commercial advertisement, distribution for profit, and distribution
through commercial companies is generally prohibited.

 

 

Written permissions for Arena 1.x:
Generally Freeware / Shareware webpages we added Arena Setup 1 aren't in this
table.

1.
Alexander Schmidt
http://www.uciengines.de/
UCI Arena partner!

Alexander Schmidt has an exclusive permissions to add Patzer in combination
with Arena on his webpage. Patzer and BitBases for Patzer may not be distributed
as part of any software package, service or web site without prior written
permission from the author.

Copyright Information regarding for Patzer engine:
Arena Setup 4 (UCI, WB, SMP engine)
Copyright (C) 2004
by Roland Pfister, Germany
http://www.uciengines.de
Used by permission of Roland Pfister.
All rights reserved.


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2a. DGT projects
Ben Bursik / Hermen Reitsma
http://www.dgtprojects.com/
Commercial Arena Partner!

Ben Bursik / Hermen Reitsma has the permission to add Arena Setup 1 on DGT
webpage. Furthermore, DGT projects is free in the decision to create a free
customer CD with Arena Setup 1.

2b. Schach Niggemann
Günther Niggemann
http://www.schachversand.de/
Commercial Arena Partner!

Günther Niggemann is free in his decision to add Arena Setup 1 on a catalog
CD / DVD for his customers. Günther Niggemann is exclusiv distributor for the
commercial Ruffian 2.x CD-Rom.

2c. Chess Academy
Witali Braslawski
http://www.chess-academy.com/
Commercial Arena partner!

Witali Braslawski has the permission to add Arena Setup 1 on an additional
CD / DVD as part to his commercial project Chess-Academy.


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3a.
Reinhard Scharnagl
http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1.html
FRC Arena partner!

3b.
Axel Fritz
http://www.chesstigers.de/
FRC Arena partner!

Reinhard Scharnagl, and Axel Fritz has the permission to add Arena Setup 3 on
the Smirf and ChessTigers webpage.


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4.
Peter Fendrich
http://terra.fendrich.se/
Programmer of UCI / WB Terra

Jean Peter Fendrich is free in his decision to add Arena in combination WITH his
own engine Terra on his Terra webpage.


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Arena team:
Programmer of Arena: Martin Blume
Organisation: Michael Diosi
Webmaster of http://www.playwitharena.co.uk: Christopher Conkie & Michael Diosi
Webmaster of http://www.playwitharena.com: Michael Diosi
 

Written by Martin Blume
with permisson by all authors!
