I wish this was the case here, but Rybka has clearly benefited financially its "creator"(quotes because of this uncredited copying).
As the strongest chess engine in the world for 3-4 years, it must have sold quite a few copies.
By comparison, Crafty and Fruit are free and thus unlikely to bring much in a way of a financial windfall.
The big difference between this case and countless others where cheaters benefit financially (think about thinly disguised GUI front-ends for FFmpeg, which do not mention GPL anywhere), is that Rybka truly was a superior product from those it copied.
Hard to speculate on the motives here but Rajlich must not have wished to share his laurels with anyone.
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I wish this was the case here, but Rybka has clearly benefited financially its "creator"(quotes because of this uncredited copying).
As the strongest chess engine in the world for 3-4 years, it must have sold quite a few copies.
By comparison, Crafty and Fruit are free and thus unlikely to bring much in a way of a financial windfall.
The big difference between this case and countless others where cheaters benefit financially (think about thinly disguised GUI front-ends for FFmpeg, which do not mention GPL anywhere), is that Rybka truly was a superior product from those it copied.
Hard to speculate on the motives here but Rajlich must not have wished to share his laurels with anyone.