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Subject: Re: when is a clone a clone?

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 13:05:14 11/28/03

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No one said officially that LIST is a clone. The point here is a failure of
attribution. If you ripped asembeller code,as you hypothetically suggest, you
have the guts to admit it.

On November 28, 2003 at 05:00:49, martin fierz wrote:

>just a short question:
>
>if i rip assembler stuff like popcount and firstone from the crafty source, but
>the rest of my program is entirely different, am i doing something wrong?
>
>if i use the kogge-stone floodfill algorithms posted here by steffan westcott,
>am i doing something wrong?
>
>how much foreign code is allowed?
>
>cheers
>  martin
>
>PS: i use a table-based popcount, not crafty's assembly code. i use a modified
>version of crafty's lastone. i don't use steffan's floodfill code, but i plan to
>give it a try.



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