I hate to see Robert dragged through the mud every time and this poll is meant to suggest some constructive solutions and to express your feelings as a guide for him what to do. But first allow me to put things in a historic nutshell before you cast your vote.
1. When Ippolit appeared in 2009 it immediately was claimed by Vas as Rybka. But Vas never provided the proof for that. Sven asked Vas direct questions about his Ippolit claim but Vas refused to back-up his accusation.
As I see it, accusations without providing evidence are worthless and when given the chance by the initiative of Sven (June 2010) Vas failed again what he should have done in the first place when he made the Ippolit claim 8 months earlier.
By his refusal to do so the claim lost its right, perhaps even on a juridical base. So Ippolit is freeware. Everybody is free to start from it. Julien as a lawyer might want to shed his light on this.
2. Ippolit became Robbolito, released as freeware also. But Robbolito was Italian and thus an obstacle for non Italian speaking people to start from it. Here Norman and Milos did a huge translation job and made the free Robbolito source code understandable in English. Then Norman released this english version under GPL.
3. Robert without a shred of doubt started from this English version. It's as crystal clear as the pre-Rybka's were rooted in Crafty. I have not heard one programmer saying otherwise. There is full consensus among programmers on both cases which is quite unique I must say
4. There is absolutely no kind of wrong doing if Robert would have started from the Italian freeware Robbolito or the raw Ippolito, fact is he did not and started from the GPL protected English Robbolito which only protects the work Norman and Milos have done to Robbolito.
And herein lies the origin of the constant scolding of his name being a cloner in endless loops.
I have vote myself for option-2.
In the hope the scolding might stop one day.
