Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 22:33:31 08/29/05
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On August 29, 2005 at 18:17:37, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >Curious, I'm all for open source, and even forking projects. How does the >credit work when a chess engine forked from another engine competes? Does both >people get the title? > >For example the case of Fruit and Toga, if they both won a tournament say 1st >and 2nd place, could Fabian say he (in a way) held 1st and 2nd place, or just >the author of the new branch (or a team win perhaps). > >Josh > > > >>But you could use the old sources (up to 2.1) to improve Toga. If you work >>hard enough, Toga could be stronger than Fruit commercial. >> >>;-) >> >>Robert Don't know. But there are some other examples around. E.g. Interbase (the Borland's RDBMS) and Firebird. Interbase 6.0 beta was open-sourced and those sources were the starting point for the Firebird project. Later, Interbase 6.X was close-sourced again, but Firebird exists now as an open-source RDBMS and competes directly with the commercial Interbase. Firebird has IPL license (based on MPL), and in the FB documents you cannot find much words about Interbase. However, because of the "clone" status of Toga, I don't think it will participate in any significant tournaments. The organizators very likely won't allow that. It would not be fair. Robert
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