Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:38:17 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 17:32:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Well said. Boy I wish I could come up with these good examples. KarinsDad > >>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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