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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