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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