Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 01:58:29 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 04:19:46, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 23, 2005 at 04:07:38, Ryan B. wrote: > >>That is rediculess, you are not a cloner. The ideas in fruit are free just not >>the source. I think the point of fruit was so that people would study it and >>improve their own programs through study. This includes the use of ideas from >>fruit. > >Thanks > >I agree that it is not logical to consider me as a cloner based on this type of >experiments and I am sure that fabien also agree about it but I am afraid that >tournament organizaers will not agree about it based on what I read here. > >Note that I also plan to learn from fruit's structure about designing better >functions to detect bugs and better design of the code(similiar to fruit but >without copy and paste) because today movei is badly written and there is a lot >of global variables in it and I think to start from scratch with having special >structures for the board similiar to fruit but of course no copy and paste and >my board representation is different from fruit and it is probably not going to >be changed. > >This is one of the advantages that I can get from code and not from ideas in >english because ideas in english do not explain to me how to write a better >code. > >I still did not start to rewrite movei because I still want to improve the >existing version before the next tournament of WBEC. > >Uri I don't understand your fears. Just look at the huge thankses and acknowledgement lists on the end of Readme.txt of many other original engines (e.g. Baron, Glaurung, Pepito, Sjeng, Ktulu, Amyan ...) for sharing codes, code snippets, ideas, etc. Are you considering all them as clones ?! As far as you mention Fabien Letouzey in your Readme.txt for sharing his ideas with you, there shouldn't be a problem at all. If he's worrying about reusing his original ideas in other engines, then he shouldn't have released Fruit as open source. Robert
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