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It can also be found on the <a href="/prep/ftp.html">GNU mirrors</a>; please <a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnushogi/">use a mirror</a> if possible.</p> <h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3> <p><a href="manual/">Documentation for GNU Shogi</a>, including the <a href="manual/gnushogi_3.html">rules of Shogi</a>, is available online, as is <a href="/manual/">documentation for most GNU software</a>. You may also find more information about GNU Shogi by running <em>info gnushogi</em> or <em>man gnushogi</em>, or by looking at <em>/usr/share/doc/gnushogi/</em>, <em>/usr/local/doc/gnushogi/</em>, or similar directories on your system.</p> <h4 id="otherdocs">Other sources of information about Shogi</h4> <p>For more information on shogi, go to <a href="http://www.shogi.net/" >Pieter Stouten's shogi page</a>, which has links to essentially all shogi-related material on the internet. Many thanks to Pieter for providing this service!</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi" >Wikipedia</a>, also hosts useful information about the game, and versions of the rules in many languages. <h3 id="bugreports">Reporting problems</h3> <p>Problems with GNU Shogi can be reported through the project's <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnushogi">bug tracker</a>. <h3 id="frontends">GUI frontends</h3> <p>GNU Shogi proper is only the AI engine, and you will likely want to use a GUI frontend to be more comfortable. The <em>gnushogi</em> program does include a text-based UI if you're into this sort of things, and the source distribution also includes the (very) old <em>xshogi</em> frontend for the X Window system. Suggested frontends include: </p> <dl> <dt><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/tagua/yd.git">Tagua</a></dt> <dd>A KDE-based GUI for Chess and Shogi. Developement stopped several years ago, and it is still somewhat maintained <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tagua.html">at Debian</a></dd> <dt><a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/omaha/">Omaha</a></dt> <dd>A generic board-game GUI, supporting Shogi and other games, with currently only a Gtk2-based UI.</dd> <dt><a href="https://github.com/pcapriotti/kaya">Kaya</a></dt> <dd>A small KDE-based GUI successor to Tagua, but developement of this still young program seem to have stalled.</dd> <dt><a href="/software/xboard/">XBoard</a></dt> <dd>A GUI for much more than Shogi, part of the GNU Project - patches for GNU Shogi to support it are being integrated into the developement version, 1.4.0 cannot talk to it.</dd> </dl> <h3 id="mail">Mailing lists</h3> <p>GNU Shogi has the following mailing lists:</p> <ul> <!-- <li><a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnushogi">bug-gnushogi</a> is used to discuss most aspects of GNU Shogi, including development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.</li> <li><a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnushogi">help-gnushogi</a> is for general user help and discussion.</li> --> <li><a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnushogi-users">gnushogi-users</a> is for general user help and discussion.</li> <li><a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnushogi-devel">gnushogi-devel</a> is used to discuss developement of GNU Shogi, including development and enhancement requests.</li> </ul> <p>Announcements about GNU Shogi and most other GNU software are made on <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu">info-gnu</a> (<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/">archive</a>).</p> <p>Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/security">security</a> mailing list for advice.</p> <h3 id="contribute">Getting involved</h3> <p>Development of GNU Shogi, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read <a href="/help/">How to help GNU</a>. If you'd like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the discussion mailing list (see above).</p> <dl> <dt>Test releases</dt> <dd>Trying the latest test release (when available) is always appreciated. Test releases of GNU Shogi can be found at <a href="http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnushogi/">http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnushogi/</a> (via HTTP) and <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnushogi/">ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnushogi/</a> (via FTP).</dd> <dt>Development</dt> <dd>For development sources, issue trackers, and other information, please see the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnushogi/">GNU Shogi project page</a> at <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</dd> <!-- <dt>Translating GNU Shogi</dt> <dd>To translate GNU Shogi's messages into other languages, please see the <a href="http://translationproject.org/domain/gnushogi.html">Translation Project page for GNU Shogi</a>. If you have a new translation of the message strings, or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into GNU Shogi. 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Please use the mailing lists for contact.</dd> </dl> <h3 id="license">Licensing</h3> <p>GNU Shogi is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" rel="license" >GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!-- begin server/footer-text.html --> <div style="clear:both"></div> <div id="mission-statement" role="complementary"> <div class="backtotop"> <hr class="no-display" /> <a href="#header"><span>BACK TO TOP </span>▲</a> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> <blockquote> <p style="direction:ltr; text-align:left"><a href="//www.fsf.org"><img id="fsfbanner" src="/graphics/fsf-logo-notext-small.png" alt=" [FSF logo] " width="75" height="25" /></a><strong> “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. 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