Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz
Date: 11:21:06 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 14:12:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. The only problem is: How do I know who should I write for every thing that I do? I know who should I ask for permission if I ever implement the tablebases (and I will ask), but I'm not sure about the rest of the stuff. Thanks for the advice in any case. Jaime
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