Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 14:05:56 11/09/05
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Hello, Roger! On November 09, 2005 at 14:18:44, Roger Brown wrote: >A lesson to you Tord. One day you might find yourself in a similar position. >Then you will have persons telling you that: > >(a) Going commercial was wicked since you started out free >(b) Could they have free versions of your programs for testing etc? >(c) Could they copy your program with some changes and call it theirs? >(d) Now that you are commercial then all your improvements from your own code >must be released. The probability that my program will ever be commercial is vanishingly small, but I think I would be able to cope with all of the above. :-) >Tord, you are one of the good guys. Thanks! I am sure some people would disagree with you, but at least I am doing my best. :-) >Please hide your source code, With the risk of losing my status as one of the good guys, I have to say that my source code will stay open in the foreseeable future. I still believe in open source, and I am firmly convinced that the net effects for the community of having a strong open source program like Fruit are overwhelmingly positive. When a program surpasses the best commercial programs the matter becomes more debatable, and I have no difficulties accepting that Fabien felt forced to hide his source with Fruit 2.2. A program on the level of Glaurung, however, is utterly harmless. Hiding the source wouldn't make any sense at all. >particularly the code of your more interesting forays into computer >chess programming (Scatha et al). Scatha's source code is no more interesting than Glaurung's, really. It is no big exaggeration to say that Scatha is Glaurung with a bigger board array and a different lookup table for move generation. Anyone with rudimentary programming skills could take Glaurung and change it to a hexagonal chess program (or a Gothic chess program, or a program for some other game very similar to chess) within a few hours. >Fabien gave us a great free engine. I cannot understand the sheer volume of >illogical material written here. It is not that bad, really. Most of the illogical material comes from a single person, who may have just completely misunderstood the GNU Public License (as Dann guessed). I think it has been remarked before in this forum that there is no German translation of the GPL. Tord
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