Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:37:06 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 23:03:03, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >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! This is totally different. Mr. Syed is objecting to people appropriating authorship of Crafty, in order to enter it in tournaments where only unique programs may enter. What you are talking about is server clutter due to too many people running Crafty exactly as it begs to be run, given that Bob releases it in WinBoard compatible form. bruce
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