Author: Charles Roberson
Date: 07:20:00 02/16/05
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Looks like we agree that cutting and pasting code is cloning.
Cutting and pasting a little of it (define little) may be ok with authors
permission.
Another here stated it all comes down to effort -- he may be right.
Dann made a statement that is worth discussion.
I will paraphrase here:
"it is ok to read some code and reuse ideas, but it is not ok
to cut and paste code."
To add to that comes the middle ground of a person reading the code line
by line and reproducing functionally equivalent code. But not cutting and
pasting or even copying the same code.
-- there is a lot of effort saved in this approach, the person saves
years of work in not having to think of/ test for/ or fix corner
cases. I've spent lots of time rewriting code to my two chess engines
due to not thinking of some corner cases up front.
Now, if one reads a book on computers playing chess and see algorithmic
descriptions but no real code, then I've not cloned or have I?
-- this does require a lot of effot to produce a program escpecially a
good one.
Now, if one has an algorithmic only description of a chess program like
crafty or tscp or gnuchess or ....... and I write my own program, have
I cloned??
-- this does require a lot of effort
Looks to me like this may turn into a statement of acceptable practices
as opposed to a specific definition of "Clone". I think such a statement
would be far more productive and useful and more clear.
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