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Subject: Re: Clones and moral behavior

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 14:02:59 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 16:23:45, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 16:06:51, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2005 at 05:29:33, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On August 23, 2005 at 04:58:29, Robert Hollay wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>Exactly - however I would regard all the above mentioned engines as clones. No
>>>doubt about it.
>>
>>
>>If you have "no doubt about it" then please support your statement with some
>>evidence.  What program(s) did they clone?
>>
>>-Peter
>
>
>Please take a look into the readme files for yourself.


I did and I think you are confused.  A program is not a clone just because the
author received help and advice from other programmers.  There isn't a chess
program in existence that doesn't borrow some ideas from its predecessors.

By your current standards, even Crafty would be considered a clone.

-Peter



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