CHESS FIRST MOVES — PROPRIETARY LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE

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Chess First Moves is the public-facing name used by the individual operator
of this project and website.

SCOPE

This notice applies to original material created for Chess First Moves,
including original application code, artwork, piece designs, illustrations,
lesson explanations, annotations, hints, overviews, and instructional
collections, only to the extent that the material is protected by applicable
law and the operator holds the relevant rights.

This is a proprietary, rights-reserved notice. It does not grant an
open-source license to the original material.

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Visitors may access the hosted website and use its content for their own
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In particular, python-chess remains licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.
Distribution of any GPL-covered software or combined work must comply with
the applicable GPL requirements. This notice does not authorize proprietary
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PUBLIC FACTS AND UNPROTECTED MATERIAL

No exclusive rights are claimed in chess rules, moves, opening names,
underlying ideas, public-domain material, or reference data released under
CC0. The restrictions above concern protected original expression, not the
underlying chess information.

This notice reserves only rights recognized by applicable law. It does not
create copyright or other exclusive rights in material that is not legally
protected, including purely AI-generated material where applicable law
does not recognize copyright protection.

DISCLAIMER

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for a particular purpose. Nothing in this notice excludes rights or
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