Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:32:38 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 16:38:05, Fernando Villegas wrote: [snip] >My point of view is that, no matter how much ugly is to use work made by another >people, if that work is public and so is part of the general available resources >of the community, then it can be used and changed as you wish and it is not your >problem if other guys are not using it because they prefer to start from >scratch. This last people can say that is not fair to compete in that way, but >that is ridiculous. May I blame a guy that compete with a car that has the >conventional 4 times engine and 4 wheels if I try to win the race with a bike >with a washing machine engine? Every guy can use and change Crafty engine as >every guy can use and change the already known alfa-beta techniques or whatever. You are a writer, IIRC. Suppose you write an article and sell it to magazine x. I take the same article, change 4 out of 500 sentences and sell it to magazine y. Did I do something wrong? But, after all, the text of your article was freely available. Does that give me a license to steal? I think not. >Creafty is part of the universal knowledge of chess programming thanks to the >generosity of Bob and the fact that Bob is not a photo in an encyclopedia or a >note in a biography of genuses, but a real being that chat with us, does not >change a bit the things. Yes, maybe we can blame the authors of Bionic for >supporting too much his creature in the arms of Bob, but, again, how much is too >much? Those issues are worked out already in plaguarism and fair use laws. They apply to software in exactly the same way as any other intellectual property medium. (Though I am certainly not a lawyer, so YMMV).
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