Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 07:27:32 04/11/05
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On April 11, 2005 at 05:51:43, Günther Simon wrote: >On April 11, 2005 at 05:32:06, Christopher Conkie wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~filipe/elturco/ >> >>Who indeed.......is El Turco? >> >>Well El Turco is an engine. It is a Winboard engine. As the author (who is real) >>states it has a striking resemblance to the engine Faile. >> >>I found El Turco some time ago. >> >>I thought I'd better check if I could find any reference to it anywhere. I did >>find something..... >> >>I found only this..... >> >>http://f50.parsimony.net/forum200321/messages/9046.htm >> >>By which I came to this...... >> >>http://kh.soentges.de/gruppeneinteilungen.html (10. Bundesliga) >> >>Toga and the Turk? >> >>I think we have been here before......... >> >>It must be cloak and dagger........ >> >>What do you all think? >> >>Regards >> >>Christopher > > >ElTurco is known as a *patchwork clone* at least by WB people. >BTW it also uses the plain Crafty book implementation... > >The author first used mainly TSCP code, after some complaints >and recognizing the code as *crappy* by himself(!) he just replaced >it by Faile code... > >*quote from WB forum:* >'I have removed the TSCP code from my engine and replaced it with code from >Faile (which, I checked, is MIT licensed so I can use the code). >I have released a new version with no TSCP code'. > >I know of no serious tester, who uses it in tournaments. > >BTW have you ever looked at the *Hall of shame* at the TSCP site? >http://home.comcast.net/~tckerrigan/ Faile does have an MIT license. So if you use Faile code, you have to say that you used it. If you do that, then nothing else is morally wrong with it. That is (in fact) the INTENTION of an MIT licence. It means this exactly: "Use this code for anything you like, but say that you used it." You do not have to release your modified source code. It is far more lenient than ordinary copyright or even LGPL. Literally, it means (in this case) that there is absolutely nothing wrong with ElTurco. Whether or not others want to run it in their contests is another matter.
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