Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:43:54 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 14:28:28, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 17, 2005 at 14:20:34, Cesar Contreras wrote: > >>This post it's because i want to know people point of view in this matter. >> >>I received some weeks ago some emails that make me aware of some denunciations >>about my engine stating that it is a clone. Since i can not know who make this >>denunciation and why they made it, i cannot make an statement on this fact. >>Maybe something related to fafis case, because it happens just after that case. >> >>So in order to stop this from the very beggining i released my source code. I >>don't hide any big secret, and i'm sure that 99.99% of the code was typed by me. >>Maybe some lines are taken from code snippets from forums, but are almost >>nothing. Some ideas are taken from everywhere, but the most of them are taken >>from papers, thesis, articles and books. >> >>Now i think that because that emails where sended to several people of this >>forum (a public accusation in my understanding) they think that my engine >>probably could be clone. I see some comments as insinuations against my engine >>(probably wrong about it). I feel a sensation also that because i was defending >>Rafael, people think that i was defended the clone cause. >> >>So my questions: >> >>can source code completly validate an engine as legal? > >Depends on what you mean. It should remove any doubt as far as whether the >engine is a clone or not. There could be a patent violation that all parties >are unaware of, and so it might (strictly speaking) be illegal. I think that the law should simply forbid patents. The idea that some person may get into trouble because of patent violation that he even did not know about make me angry and it is simply against justice. People should know what is illegal and what is legal. I think that patents have negative value because they encourage people to release nothing(otherwise they may get into trouble of patent violation). If many countries decide not to allow patents and also forbid selling or buying products from countries that allow patents then maybe this economic war can convince all countries not to allow patents(of course it is not effective if only few countries do it). Uri
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