Tournament Practice: Similarity Limits (Basic Discussion)

[Graham Banks]

People actually showing up at tournements have a pretty common opinion.

That is not surprising if people with a different opinion are excluded from showing up.

Ah excellent !!!

The programmers that support clones to participate you mentioned are the cloners themselves .

Brilliant.

Maybe you know some thieves that think stealing should be allowed ?

Tony

Just out of interest Tony (and sorry for changing the topic), but what is the name of your chess engine?

Regards, Graham.

[swami]

Just out of interest Tony (and sorry for changing the topic), but what is the name of your chess engine?

Regards, Graham.

his engine? xinix.

[Graham Banks]

Just out of interest Tony (and sorry for changing the topic), but what is the name of your chess engine?

Regards, Graham.

his engine? xinix.

Thanks Swami. It must be private?

Regards, Graham.

[Uri Blass]

correct

xinix is private.

Uri

[jdart]

I have maybe a more liberal view on this than many do.

For open source programs, I don't really understand very much how someone can distribute a program as open source and then be upset if a derivative shows up that uses some of its concepts, ideas, or (if allowed by the license) even code. To me, the relevant question to ask about such a derived program is, is it violating a copyright or license? If not, then it's a reasonable use of publicly available source code. In fact, I am surprised that we've not had more such derivatives, given that a number of very strong programs are available now under GPL.

However, Strelka, which is apparently derived from a closed source program, is not ok in my book. It's a different case because the original author did not intend to make his work public.