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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:37:52 02/15/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 20:32:26, Madhavan wrote:
[snip]
>Dann,
>
>without looking on whats in the code,How do you determine if the engine has
>source code that contains same code(of some open source say crafty or fruit)
>except evaluation and search.

It can definitely be done (consider [for instance] that partly functional
reverse compilers do exist for a few C dialects.)  And there are other ways to
know.

But I won't go into details about how I can detect it, because that would make
it easier for someone to hide it.



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