Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:57:24 12/11/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 08:18:54, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On December 08, 2003 at 23:14:10, Axel Schumacher wrote: > >Zappa can beat TSCP with two integer pipelines behind its back. Cloning is >reserved for strong open source programs. If someone wants to clone Gerbil or >TSCP, who cares? Its a lot easier than starting from scratch, and if the engine >ever becomes reasonably strong, they will have rewritten 99.999% of the code >anyway. IIRC, The Baron started out as a TSCP clone. Which is like saying: It's OK to copy a comic book and sell it as your own work, but not a Pulitzer prize winning novel. Where will we set the threshold? If the author says absolutely no stealing, I think we should take them at their word. If a program is explicitly in the public domain, you can do whatever you darn well please with it. If a program has a Berkeley or Ace style license, you can do whatever you want with it, but you have to say you derived it from the original. If a program has a GPL style license, you can do whatever you want with it, but you MUST make the altered source code available. For other styles of license, you should read them and follow them. By the way, TSCP is by no means a trivial piece of work. Sure, it's beatable, but can you beat it in fewer lines of code? How long will it take you to code TSCP from scratch? 40 hours would be a stupendous job, and at $100 per hour, that's $4000. Not exactly petty larceny. At about 2100 lines the standard estimate would be 210 hours, give or take (which takes into consideration design, code, debug, etc.)
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