Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 03:08:33 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 04:55:41, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 28, 2003 at 04:22:08, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On November 28, 2003 at 03:33:04, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On November 28, 2003 at 03:02:57, Ingo Bauer wrote: >>> >>>>-> attacks.c >>>>->hash.c >>>>->init.c >>>>->make.c >>>>->next.c >>>>->root.c >>>>->search.c >>> >>>>the ones with the arrow (->) are identical. >>> >>>7 out of 22 doesn't mean anything. These file names are VERY generic too. I bet >>>there are many programs that have the same names for their files. >>> >>>Gerbil has attacks.c, hash.c, and search.c. >> >>3 >> >>> >>>GNU Chess has hash.c, init.c, search.c. >> >>3 >> >>> >>>TSCP has search.c. >> >>1 >>> >>>Arasan has search.cpp, hash.cpp. >> >>2 >>> >>>Resp has hash.cpp, serach.cpp. >> >>2 >>> >>>ExChess has attacks.cpp, hash.cpp, search.cpp. >> >>3 >>> >>>Faile, Phalanx, and Sjeng all have hash.c and search.c. >> >>2 >> >>Point is that when there are 7, there seems to be a valid reason to have some >>very very little doubt. In this case the author has to to provide the >>sourcecode. Failing to do so got him kicked out, not the suspiscion, not the >>complainer, not the question wether or not List is a Crafty clone. > >I think that you can find more similiarity in names of files between movei and >tscp. > >Do you think that I need to change the names of the files in order to allow >movei to compete in tournaments in the future without suspicion that it may be a >tscp clone. > >Uri That's the point. It is a common approach for a newbie chess programmer to use some sources from open source software. I see nothing wrong with it as long as he has rewritten most of the stuff before initial release. The similarity of some file names is not enough evidence to request the inspection of the source code. In case this was all evidence they should have suggested Fritz Reul to name a respectable person of his choice like Dann Corbit or Robert Hyatt to have a quick look at his source code in order to make sure that List is not a Crafty clone. Michael
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