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Subject: Re: Clones and moral behavior

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 14:09:52 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 17:02:59, Peter Kappler wrote:

>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


Do you know exactly know how to define clones? Let's see who's the one who's
confused.



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