Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:12:05 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 14:08:24, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: >Does that mean that we can be sued for using ideas such as using bitboards... or >a 64 bytes array to represent the board? You can be sued if you are innocent. Software is an extrememly complex matter and I doubt if 1% of judges or juries would be able to make a competent decision. Therefore the quality of the legal team will probably determine the outcome. >The only two pieces of code that I have ever copied are: > > 1) A few lines to read the input, because I didn't know how to do this. > 2) A branchless assembly version of a 64-bit BSR/BSF for 32-bit processors. > >The implementation (but not the original ideas) of typical chess engine search / >evaluation functions are mine... because I don't like reading other people's >code. Do you advice to start sending lots of mails to lots of people asking for >the permission to use their ideas if I ever decide to send my program to a >tournament (or make it commercial)? Yes. It is not a legal necessity, but I think it is a good idea. Probably, we don't write more than one new routine a day. That's not a lot of emails. >All this sounds a bit extreme to me. > >Regards, > > Jaime Like any idea, it has both a positive and negative aspect.
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