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Subject: At what point is it YOUR program ?

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 07:23:34 03/21/00

Hi,

If you started "serious" chess programming by modifying an Open Source program,
spending countless hours, at what point can you honestly speak of "YOUR program"
?

In my case I rewrote the complete evaluation function, I changed the piece
values drastically and added / changed some of the extensions and rewrote the
time-handling routine + minor things.

But 95% of the code is still the original, since I didn't feel like inventing
the wheel so no changes to basic alpha-beta or move-generation routines or
winboard connection.

My finger notes on Fics say that the program is "[original program] with changes
in ...", I would like to call it "[my program], based on [original program]".

Do you think that is ok ? What is your opinion ? At what point can you give it
an own name and don't have to speak of a "modified xyz" anymore ?

Regards,
Georg v. Zimmermann

Tinker 6 months ago Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Brian Richardson 08:50:29 03/22/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Dan Ellwein 05:10:25 03/22/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Dave Dory 23:37:37 03/21/00
Thx for the Input ... Follow up here Georg v. Zimmermann 14:07:47 03/21/00
- Re: Thx for the Input ... Follow up here KarinsDad 11:02:25 03/22/00
- Re: Thx for the Input ... Follow up here Bruce Moreland 00:30:33 03/22/00
- Re: Thx for the Input ... Follow up here Tom Kerrigan 17:54:04 03/21/00
- Re: Thx for the Input ... Follow up here Dan Homan 14:28:44 03/21/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Dan Homan 11:24:40 03/21/00
- Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 12:15:05 03/21/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Dann Corbit 10:48:05 03/21/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Inmann Werner 10:22:23 03/21/00
- Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? KarinsDad 11:08:41 03/21/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 10:01:14 03/21/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Andrew Dados 08:14:41 03/21/00
- Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? KarinsDad 09:00:03 03/21/00
  - Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Will Singleton 10:07:05 03/21/00
    - Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? KarinsDad 11:05:11 03/21/00
      - Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Will Singleton 15:26:30 03/21/00
        
        Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? KarinsDad 08:57:25 03/22/00
Re: At what point is it YOUR program ? Jay Rinde 07:34:01 03/21/00

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