Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 07:34:01 03/21/00
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On March 21, 2000 at 10:23:34, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >Hi, > >If you started "serious" chess programming by modifying an Open Source program, >spending countless hours, at what point can you honestly speak of "YOUR program" >? > >In my case I rewrote the complete evaluation function, I changed the piece >values drastically and added / changed some of the extensions and rewrote the >time-handling routine + minor things. > >But 95% of the code is still the original, since I didn't feel like inventing >the wheel so no changes to basic alpha-beta or move-generation routines or >winboard connection. > >My finger notes on Fics say that the program is "[original program] with changes >in ...", I would like to call it "[my program], based on [original program]". > >Do you think that is ok ? What is your opinion ? At what point can you give it >an own name and don't have to speak of a "modified xyz" anymore ? > >Regards, >Georg v. Zimmermann This may not be a good example, but.... Let's say you wanted to translate the Bible but since the King James version was so good you decided just to do original translation of about the 5 per cent you thought needed clarity. Now, could you say it was your translation or just a modification? As I said, I don't know whether this is a good example but, then..... Jay
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