Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:28:23 02/17/99
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Hi dan: Reading you thread with Dgeordge something appears to me with some clarity: the issue is not the use or not of Crafty code, BUT the the existence or lack of transparece about how that use was made out. Then, you can even compete with a clone of Crafty where just a line was changed and win a prize and it will be OK IF you say "i just changed a line of code ant this is it". And if other changes were made BUT esentially is Crafty, the guy should send to Bob and all people concerned his new ideas and say "look, doing this, putting this, substracting this, our beloved Crafty get this advantage". So many people has done. And finally, if ever a guy thinks he has gone long beyond Crafty on the ground of Crafty source, he should say "Hey, I have here something that finally is different and new and if enybody doubt about it, let a third part to take a look into the bowells, provided he has promised under legal enformcement not to make public the new things he can see there". And then the guy can even become commercial. I believe at first glance that this fits with your concerns about morality. Glasnot is the answer to a good deal of problem,s so I think. Fernando
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