Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 20:03:03 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 21:33:48, syed wrote: >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 This is exactly why I object to clone after clone after clone of whatever-free-public-chess-program-exists on (F)ICS. It clutters up ICS and makes people not want to play computers because there are TOO MANY OF THEM and they are THE SAME!
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