Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 09:14:30 09/04/05
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On September 04, 2005 at 11:13:37, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On September 04, 2005 at 10:37:13, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 04, 2005 at 10:29:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >> >>>On September 04, 2005 at 10:27:40, Madhavan wrote: >>> >>>>How much percentage does Elchinito contain Crafty's code? >>>> >>>>If it's lesser than 95%,Elchinito should be tested,as Toga is being >>>>tested,results reported about Toga are hefty >>>> >>>>Some people claim Toga contain almost 99% or nearly 100% of Fruit.I'm not saying >>>>Toga should not be tested,What I'm trying to say is that Elchinito should also >>>>be tested because the last version wa sproven to be much stronger than >>>>Crafty[was it?] >>> >>>The difference is that Crafty is not GPL and a clone based on Crafty source code >>>is ILLEGAL. >>> >>>regards >>>Andy >> >>People are allowed to change the source of Crafty if they make the changes >>public. > >Only for personal use, or you have the written permission of the author. > > * All rights reserved. No part of this program may be reproduced in any * > * form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the * > * express written permission of the author. This program may not be used in * > * whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without * > * written permission from the author. Such permission will include the * > * requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that * > * the program's ancestry will be known. > But who really cares? I bet large parts of Crafty code are in the commercial program "Chess vision trainer" which was sold as shareware. I had noticed file names like books.bin,book.bin,game.001,position.lrn,etc... in the program folder. I saw no mention of Crafty or Robert Hyatt whatsoever. Btw, the program was utter crap. Wiped it immediately from my HD. Michael
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