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Subject: Re: ElChinito disassembly for all of us

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:46:38 08/23/04

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On August 23, 2004 at 19:22:33, Roger Brown wrote:

>>The readme was written by Frank, not Eugenio Castillo.
>
>
>Hello Dann,
>
>I fail to understand this fine point.  One of the gentlemen concerned had a duty
>to mention Crafty somewhere.

I was pointing out an apparent innacuracy.

>Failure to contact Dr. Hyatt is one thing.  Failure by either to mention Crafty
>is nigh unforgiveable.  Particularly in the light of your remarks further down
>about the "debt" owed to the Crafty framework.
>
>That sounds as if it deserved a mention of Crafty somewhere by somebody.
>
>The author chose not to ship it as open source and also did not attribute
>anything to Crafty.  Thise actions had nothing to do with contacting Dr. Hyatt.
>
>Just my opinion.

I happen to agree with it.

>>
>>I discerned that ElChinito used the crafty framework in 2003.  I exchanged
>>emails with Eugenio Castillo about it.  I suggested that he make the project
>>open source and give attributions (both according to the crafty license) and
>>that he should discuss it with Dr. Hyatt.
>>
>>He did try to contact Dr. Hyatt, according to email that I received Sat
>>11/8/2003 4:39 AM:
>>
>>"i've write to Hyatt but still no answers, i do it 2
>>times in 3 days (the public email from icdchess). This
>>can be good or very bad."
>>
>>I assumed that somehow the matter hand been straightened out.  It might be good
>>for Dr. Hyatt to check his email archives.  Perhaps something appeared to be
>>spam but was actually an attempt to arbitrate the situation and has been
>>overlooked.



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