Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 05:10:25 03/22/00
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On March 21, 2000 at 10:23:34, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >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"? > '... at what point can you honestly speak of "YOUR program"?' one way to think about this would be to ask the question, at what point can you honestly speak of 'YOUR opening?'... the Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, the various Queen Pawn openings all have many variations associated with them... at what point does a series of opening moves become a 'new' opening... >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
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