Author: syed
Date: 18:33:48 01/26/99
Regarding the Crafty-Bionic Impact issue, I think the best solution would be to have some sort of conditional copyright. While keeping Crafty source open is a good idea, since it saves re-inventing the wheel, I think a conditional copyright preventing any use of source code in competitive play would be in place. Thinking long-term, the idea of having several Crafty's with minor changes in the eval function, turn up at the World Championship, is pretty scary.What is to prevent a programmer who spent a couple of years on his program competing against one who spent 2hrs on cut-n-paste, 1hr on eval tweaking and 1 more on Winboard interface? Basically I suggest some measure that would allow borrowing of ideas but prevent 'cut-n-paste' programming! regards, Arshad Syed
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