"Thuerriedl Reinhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > @Loic:
> Thank you for answering all of my questions! Maybe I shouldn't > bother about sorting out licensing problems right now, because I am > just at the beginning of my work. My bot may as well turn out to be > of no use at all and then there is clearly no point in submitting it > to a competition or making it public anyway. For the competition, that's for sure. About making it Free Software, it's worth it. I'm proud of being the author of the only Free Software bot to date. It's the pokerbotlogic.py file of the poker-network software. I very much doubt your bot can do worse than this ;-) If you manage to create a bot that can't beat mine, that would be a performance. > Nevertheless, as I mentioned before, I like the idea of Open Source > and I can tell the difference between free beer and free software, > so I am not only interested in the legal restrictions imposed by the > GNU GPL but also in the intentions of the authors who make their > work open source. I'll make up my mind about this issue and hope > that we can resume our conversation about it soon. Thanks for your understanding. Hopefully the poker bots development will soon become a fertile ground for cooperation. > @Ian: > Are you the Ian Fellows from UCSD who is the author of Ianbot and > took second place in the Limit Equilibrium category of the 2007 AAAI > Poker Bot Competition? If so, congratulations! I also doubt that the > UoA team totally discarded what they once incorporated as a core > function. If you are who I think you are, maybe you can make any > suggestions about how to approach the task of building a competitive > poker bot (without conflicting with the GNU GPL or other > licenses). I really would appreciate this very much. > > All the best for your future work! -- +33 1 76 60 72 81 Loic Dachary mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latitude: 48.86962325498033 Longitude: 2.3623046278953552 _______________________________________________ Pokersource-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pokersource-users
