Author: José Carlos
Date: 10:04:51 11/28/03
If I was requested to show my source code in a tournament, would I be allowed to: - Say I wrote it in assembly and provide the exe's asm file? - Remove all the comments? - Obfuscate the code by eliminating spaces and blank lines, changing variable names (u64AllPieces to a, u64WhitePieces to b, etc...), changing function names to something different (GenerateCaptures to GenerateChecks, Quiesce to EvaluateRooks, etc...), any other obfuscation technique? - Add some files with non used code, for example from my Othello program, with a #define that is not defined (#if define(PLAY_FAST)...)? - Remove some unimportant code (printfs for console mode, ...)? - ... Any of these changes would not change a bit how the program plays, and the program would comile just fine and show the same behaviour of the inspected exe. My question: is there any rule against that? And if so, how can it be proven? José C.
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