Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:50:26 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 14:48:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 15, 2004 at 14:43:06, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On February 15, 2004 at 14:29:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >><snip> >> >>In view of the size and complexity of Crafty I wonder whether or not cloning >>Crafty is really a good idea for the newbie chess programmer to get started. >> >>On the other hand, maybe there are parts of crafty which could be used in the >>beginning so that the newbie programmer could concentrate on creating his/her >>own code for the really important parts. > >I don't disagree. The parts that always cause me the most concern center around >the evaluation and search. I didn't look at his search carefully at all, but I >did look at the evaluation, and that has too much copied code... There may be >significant search code copied or not. But copying either is really copying the >"personality" of the program... > >Several have started with gnuchess, for example, but by the time they claim it >as their own and distribute something, the important stuff has been re-done by >the person doing the work, rather than just copied... This (in my view) is a far worse offense than what has happened with the DanChess case. If you use someone's entire program and then slowly modify it, that is a simple crime to me. And one with no excuses.
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