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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:46:24 02/16/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 18:54:26, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>I want to start near the end of your posting:
>
>> (Forget about Nalimov's EGTB probing code and any other code that can be
>> used with permission).
>
>THIS is the point where clones are splitted. When everything happens with
>permission of the author of the original source and with mentioning him
>everywhere, then I am fine with that. Example: Beowulf (original) and Horizon...
>or TSCP (original) and Trace (where I believe that the newer Trace have not much
>TSCP left in them)
>Here, everything is fine...
>
>If there is no permission and/or no mentioning copying source-code is definitely
>a "no-no" !

IMO a clone is a clone... If you don't have the permission it's an illegal clone
otherwise it's a legal clone but still a clone.

/Peter



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