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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