Author: David Dahlem
Date: 17:04:46 08/25/04
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On August 25, 2004 at 20:02:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 25, 2004 at 17:51:58, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On August 25, 2004 at 17:41:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>I subscribe to a normal "legal philosophy" from the US. For a "crime" to be >>>committed, a couple of things are needed. >>> >>>(1) Intent. You need to knowingly break the law. IE if you walk into a store, >>>see a dollar bill laying on the floor, and you pick it up without thinking, you >>>_could_ be accused of theft of property. But there was no intent since the >>>floor is not a normal place for someone to leave "property" that is valuable. >>>No crime was committed. >>> >>>I believe this case fits that scenario. >>> >>>(2) Victim. Someone has to be victimized, directly or indirectly. He's not >>>tried to enter any ACM chess events which would victimize participants. He has >>>not publicly claimed that his code was 100% original that I have seen, so I am >>>not a victim. >>> >>>This is an unfortunate event, but one that doesn't leave me nearly as aggravated >>>as some of the other more famous cases, like bionic, le petite, voyager, et. al. >>> They definitely claimed the code to be original when it was not. >> >> >> >>There _is_ a victim that you have no right to disregard. It's the copyright hint >>you gave yourself in your source. Nobody say that you should run amok here and >>kill Eugenio, but stay at least to your own source where you requests that >>people must ask your permission. You have no right to suddenly say that if >>someone not asked that this wasn't a real problem for you. > >All that I requested in the main.c comments is "if any changes are made, they be >made public for all to use." If the engine is kept "private" I don't see how I >could enforce that since I would't even know it had happened... ??? But it is not "private"! ???
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