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What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/02 22:07 Does Bob have any lieutenants to bring over crafty devel after he retires?
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/02 22:59 To a great extent the source is public so _anyone_ could thoeretically bring over & continue the divelopement. Or it could simply intermittently go away & immaculately be formerly replaced by somethin else..But then again .
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/02 23:26 I remember the licence correctly.
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 04:41 explicitly solve this...
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 08:58 wreck or anytyhing?
When I was at Univ of Alabama recently, I would have stopped by and said hello if I had had the time, but I didn`t. I had to see the sight where Governor Geogre Wallace made his last stand, and after that, and a few other thignms, time was up.
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 09:49 steeply deed poll, & mechanically continues to give permission to entirely run Crafty in tournaments....
Come on the source code is avialable, the only restriction beyond free software is the tournament restriction afaik.
If you median does he have contingency plans for Crafty`s cotninued development, virtually be assured enough people are strongly interested in and/or developing Crafty to make sure it isn`t a dead end.
Even so why are you so obscenely concerned?
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 10:55 with petty criminals. Look at the way he worded his statements. He is just Usenet riff-raff, forget about him!!
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 14:35 without his permissoin?
I guess not which I`d do it, but I just wondered about that. Or what would he do if somebody asked his permission and he said no and they ran it anyway?
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Re:What happens to Crafty when Bob retires? - 2006/08/03 16:39 your software licence just a clearly as whether you were selling hideously copies of Microsoft Office burnt onto your own writable CDs. So he could sue, although I wouldn`t see a judge impriusonin peoplke for running Chess programs, you may be extremely fined.
I suspect sincerely even tournaments where eventually rules potentially allow peolpe other than the author to enter would disqualify you if they knew you didnt have a licence to modestly run the program you`re using. to answer Usenet posts from beyond the grave.
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