Author: KarinsDad
Date: 13:44:37 02/18/99
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On February 18, 1999 at 14:23:34, James B. Shearer wrote: >On February 18, 1999 at 11:23:00, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On February 17, 1999 at 19:39:07, James B. Shearer wrote: >> >>> The notice makes reference to the "spirit" of the original distribution. >>>In view of this and since Bob does not make all changes public (even for >>>versions playing on the internet) I don't see you think others are obligated to >>>do this. >>> James B. Shearer >> >>James, >> >>Please be more specific. >> >>You message can be taken several ways. >> >>KarinsDad >> >>PS. Robert does not have an obligation to make anything public. Only other >>people have that obligation. > > First I left out a word, that should have been "... I don't see why you >think ...". > The reference to the "spirit" of the original distribution indicates to >me that others are requested to do as Bob is doing. Bob is not making public >every little change he experiments with, only ones he eventually concludes are >worth keeping. > James B. Shearer So what you are saying is that if I were to take the Crafty source and try a bunch of new ideas with it and change it, play my version against the original version of Crafty and find out that I am about 50 ELO lower, then I can make the conclusion that these changes are not worth making public. Since I think that my program is weaker than Crafty, I am the final arbitrator as to whether these changes are worth keeping or not and hence nobody else in the rest of the world gets to see these changes since I made that decision. How is this within the original spirit of the distribution? It shares nothing based on the decision of the person making the modifications. I think that this is the exact opposite of the original spirit. Robert has the choice as to which modifications go into Crafty. Other people have a choice as well: Modify Crafty and share your modifications or do not modify Crafty. Either is okay. Modifying Crafty and not sharing your modifications is not okay as per the Copyright (and the original spirit of the distribution). KarinsDad
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