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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:21:49 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 06:15:40, Chris Welty wrote:

>If the author used ANY of Crafty's code without permission, the program should
>be banned from tournaments regardless of the definition of the word "clone". The
>license for Crafty is very clear about what you can and can't do with the code.
>
>If the author used egtb code or tscp code with the author's permission it's not
>a problem.

You're right about this, of course. Crafty is a very bad example, because of Dr.
Hyatt's very thorough notices throughout his code.

Odd, then, isn't it, that it is possibly one of most cloned engines?

jm



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