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Subject: Re: Open source engines and licensing

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:42:51 02/24/06

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On February 24, 2006 at 07:17:11, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On February 24, 2006 at 06:56:55, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>I am using the GPL, and haven't seen any problems.  My experiences with
>>open source are 100% positive, and I happy that I decided to release the
>>source code.  My program is probably stronger than most open source engines,
>>but still nobody has tried to clone it.
>>
>
>In your opinion what's the reason for that?

Hard to say, because I don't really understand the cloner mentality.
Perhaps cloners tend to always pick the strongest open source engine
available.  A few years ago, this was Crafty, and now it is Fruit.

I would also like to emphasize that cloning is a rather infrequent
phenomenon.  That one particular open source engine has never been
cloned is no big mystery.

>Is it more difficult to find a room
>for improvement in Glaurung than in Fruit or Crafty,

Certainly not.

>or the code itself is harder to understand?

I would like to think that it is easier to understand (at least
it is much shorter), but of course I am very biased.  Unlike
Fruit and Crafty, Glaurung isn't really optimized for speed or
strength, but rather for simplicity and flexibility.  I regard
it as a vehicle for doing chess programming experiments rather than
as a serious chess program.

Tord



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