Author: Günther Simon
Date: 12:35:38 03/17/05
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On March 17, 2005 at 15:22:07, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On March 17, 2005 at 15:10:33, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 17, 2005 at 14:55:57, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>>On March 17, 2005 at 14:43:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On March 17, 2005 at 14:39:49, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On March 17, 2005 at 13:13:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On March 17, 2005 at 03:22:06, Gabor Szots wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Do you agree that after giving you due credit Toga's "author" can claim that >>>>>>>"his" engine is his own intellectual product and can be called a new engine? >>>>>> >>>>>>Let me say it plainly: >>>>>> >>>>>>Toga II is fruit. >>>>>> >>>>>>There are a few tiny tweaks. >>>>>> >>>>>>If there was ever a model for the definition of a clone, it should say: >>>>>>"See Toga II" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Hi Dann: >>>>>In a case like this does inclusion of Eugene's tablebase code require separate >>>>>permission, or is it grandfathered in from Fruit? >>>> >>>>The current iteration of Fruit does not use tablebase files. >>> >>>They are included in Toga_II.zip (213 kb) that I just downloaded a couple hours >>>ago. >> >>An early version of fruit had an EGTB interface experimentally. Either he used >>that or added his own. > >OK. Let me make my question hypothetical. If I make a Crafty derivative (with >all due credit to the original) would I be able to use the tablebase code or >would I need to get permission? > >Best >Dan H. Let me make it non hypothetical. He probably added Craftys tablebase code to Fruit without any permission by Nalimov/Kadatch... I will never use such a program, it would encourage lots of bad programers to add some lines of code (may be even from other programs!) just for a start at the top. Guenther
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