Author: Swaminathan
Date: 23:49:14 11/14/05
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On November 15, 2005 at 01:06:08, Robert Hollay wrote: > I don't think there are reasons for mocking and making assumptions. >AFAIK, Ryan never stated that Fruit Gambit is his own work from scratch. yes,I agree. >Fruit's licensing allows modifying the sources and it's perfectly legal >to experiment with the code and parameters of a GPL program. He could do >that at home in secret, but he decided to share his work with us. > Even if such an engine cannot participate in events, you can play against >it, use it for analisys, or try to modify it to be even stronger! Great one,Robert.Fabien's idea was great,It's better to release all open source as GPL! Clones cannot participate in the events,but ideas in the code can be shared But what about this situation where some new author never stated that his engine is based on fruit code,and lets his engine play at events like how Elchinito does. > I don't see any wrong with what Ryan does. I think, computer chess is only >a hobby for the great majority of us. > >Regards, Robert
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