Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:00:43 12/16/04
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On December 16, 2004 at 14:25:26, Eric Oldre wrote: >GOAL: to increase the volume of testing I can do in a given time period for my >engine, against a variety of opponents. > >IDEA: To enlist the help of some friends! So when I have a new version of my >engine. I can send them my version along with several other engines and a series >of matches can be run. When finished they can send me the results back. I would >try to automate this process as much as possible. > >Right now it seems that many of the engines that I would want to use to test >against simply describe themselves as "Free". Do you think that for those >engines the use I am planning for them would be acceptable? Yes There is no problem with that use for movei. > >THE PROBLEM: >I'm not sure if this strategy would break the "fair use" principles of the >engines I am testing against. I do not understand why you try to invent problems when there are no problem. My guess is that the licensing of some engines >(for sure commercial) would prohibit this use. In case of commercial programs you only need to buy copies of the program to your friends. In case of free programs I think that your friends can download it from the internet so I do not see your problem. The only objection of programmers may be that you send the program by email if they prefer that you get to their site but in most cases programmers will have no objection that you send people the program by email(it is the case with movei and I believe the case is the same with other programs). Uri
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