Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 08:35:06 05/30/05
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On May 30, 2005 at 07:39:33, Michael Yee wrote: >On May 30, 2005 at 04:00:22, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: > >[snip] > >>But you are correct - even I dont really care about clone issue (you publish the >>source , you expect others to use it - else dont publish it !) , and as I said >>before , if I ever do opensource any of my programs , I still wont care if >>someone clones them :) > >[snip] > >I partly agree with you--if you publish the source, it's kind of expected that >others will borrow ideas or even actual code. > >But I think most people (e.g., users) would simply like to *know* when that >happens. In the academic world, you need to cite all references. If an engine >author mentioned that, for example, he used FEN parsing code from crafty, eval >ideas from crafty, and move generator code from tscp, it would be > >(1) interesting for users, >(2) helpful for other beginning programmers (since they'll have a fuller picture >of the lineage of their perhaps "suddenly strong" opponents in tournaments), > >and, most importantly, > >(3) showing respect and thanks to the original sources. > >Is that so much to ask?! > >The Toga situation illustrates this pretty well. Users really ultimately care >about engine strength. But they (at least partially) care about the route taken >to get there. Once the true lineage of Toga was made known, the situation was >acceptable to most people. > >Michael Very good point , not only for the sake of references , but common decency demands this. You use something written by someone else , you _should_ acknowledge their contribution : I agree with you. If only all shared these sentiments. Maybe the reason why people dont do it would be that a patchwork engien (like what you mentioned as example) would most probably not be recognized as a engine ... but then that should not be sufficient excuse. I have and am never going to condone illegal cloning , my opinion is just that it should be dealt with more maturely. Thanks, Mridul
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