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Subject: Re: question about definition of clones

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 09:56:13 08/21/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 12:47:36, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 21, 2005 at 08:01:16, Peter Eizenhammer wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello Uri,
>>
>>"I discuss the opposite case when the date structure is not copied but the
>>evaluation including the evaluation weights is the same." (Uri)
>>
>>Cloning. What else should it be?
>>
>>It is certainly not about copy and paste,
>>you/one could change the code a lot (in a cosmetic or obfuscating sense)
>>and still be copying the whole idea and concept.
>>in the example you use it is hard to believe how one could even hope
>>to call a program, for example "cinema", ones own. It is obvious,
>>and I think many people just dont say that, because they respect your
>>honesty, so do I, but the idea of cloning fruits evaluation, (or search, or...)
>>and not going to comply with the GPL is not good, imo.
>>
>>kind regards
>>Peter
>
>I asked Fabien about it and if I do not copy and paste code there is no problem
>with copying ideas.
>
>Note that it is not easy to copy fruit's evaluation to a different data
>structure without copying code and I think that this type of work unlike
>modifying fruit proves that the programmer understands what he is doing and what
>he is evaluating.
>
>The work of generating your own code is not easy and it may take a lot of time
>to do it and programmers do not need to work a lot of time and generate their
>own code only to read that their engine is a clone.
>
>Note that I am not surprised that there is no fruit personality in normal chess
>programs because the job of generating fruit's evaluation based on different
>structure is not easy.
>
>Uri

Uri, no offense intended, but don't you think you are a bit obsessed
meanwhile with Fruits evaluation?

Guenther



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