Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To Fabien Letouzey - about Toga

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 12:35:38 03/17/05

Go up one level in this thread


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



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.