Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:08:58 08/26/04
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On August 26, 2004 at 05:42:04, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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 No problem based on Bob Hyatt see http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?383912 Uri
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