Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 02:42:04 08/26/04
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On August 25, 2004 at 20:16:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >I think that the logical recourse is to follow the directions in the copyright. >That is to say, he should indicate that it is a crafty clone and also publish >the source code. The area of cloning and copying is becoming more infected each day. I would like to have your (and others) opinion about this: 1) In Terra I have a random-function almost unchanged copied from som early version of Crafty. The function in Crafty is based on Knuth's algorithm. 2) I also copied the input_move function from Crafty but couldn't use it because of my different structure from Crafty. I did re-write it completely but kept the idea of how to interpret an input move w.th of the move generator. I was just lazy and didn't think that these functions had anything to do with the engine itself. (maybe a bit blue eyed) I've never studied the Crafty code in detail, I'm too lazy for that, and haven't copied anything else from any place in any program. Of course I have picked up myriads of ideas from Bob and others but that's another story. So, should I publish the Terra source code because of this? Are all the previous results from Terra invalid? Finally, there are many public random-alg's around and it's no big deal to re-write that function. Is that a good idea? I asked Bob Hyatt about this in an email earlier this year but he didn't answer. /Peter
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