ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Summary of the legal settlement:<p>1. One more year in which ChessBase cannot use stockfish.<p>2. After a year, they may use it, provided they are in compliance with GPL-3<p>3. ChessBase will never again distribute stockfish without obeying the GPL-3<p>4. If they don't, the fines and penalties go to the Free Software Foundation Europe<p>5. Notices on Chessbase website for a year about this settlement<p>6. Cooordinated amicable press release<p>7. Chessbase has to have a "Free Software Compliance Officer"<p>8. From now on, Chessbase must make truthful comparisons agains stockfish, must open source neural weights, must certify compliance with GPT-3.<p>9. This lawsuit is over and resolved<p>10. Everyone pays their own legal bills.<p>Full text, two pages: