Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:13:53 02/15/05
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On February 15, 2005 at 23:26:12, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 15, 2005 at 21:49:45, Lance Perkins wrote: > >>Consider this scenario: >> >>You saw someone else's code, then you went out and wrote your own code, which >>ended up to be like the other code. >> >>Even in this scenario, you could be violating the copyright of the other code. >> >>The only way around this is with the 'clean room' approach. If you want to make >>a similar or compatible code, you should have not seen the other person's code. >>Instead, somebody else would see it, describe to you what it does, then you go >>and write the code. >> >>So, in all the cases where you stated that you took crafty's code and modifed >>potions of it, it is considered a clone. >> >>Let me go back to my novel example: >> >>Assuming someone has written a 12-chapter novel. You then went and copied the >>1st chapter, and then with your own ideas, you wrote chapters 2 to 12 which is >>your very own original story. Can you submit this new novel to a publisher and >>claim it as your own work? >> >>--- > >The only simple solution is to change the rules and decide that everything is >allowed here and every code that is published is simply the public domain >and you cannot publish code without making it the public domain. Will this rule also need to be applied to books and magazine articles? >A lot of chess programs copied something from another program(even if it is only >a function to check the time in the clock) and by your definition I am afraid >that more than 90% of the programs are clones but I do not think that they will >be considered as clones by most people. > >All the discussion pushes me to think that maybe the simple solution is the best >inspite of the disadvantages of it. >I do not like a situation when it is not clear what is legal and what is >illegal. I think it is not difficult to get permission to use something. I think it is not difficult to rewrite most chess algorithms from first principles. I think it is not difficult to give credit to the original authors.
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