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Subject: Re: can it go commercial?

Author: Robert Allgeuer

Date: 10:51:29 06/20/05

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On June 20, 2005 at 11:51:20, Cesar Contreras wrote:

>
>So i understand then that think Toga it's not a clone.
>
>In my understandind it's a clone, but it's legal.
>

In the eyes of the GPL Toga is "derived work", and that is it what it really is.

A clone is something different:
"A clone is an identical copy of something and is a term that first became
familiar to the public from the biosciences."
Key is the word identical here.

Robert


>It would be great if we chess programmers make a general well acepted clone
>definition, so everybody think  on the same when using the word "clone".



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