Introducing BuckoFIBS

[dickbalaska]

Hi ho,

I have released BuckoFIBS 0.1.  It has a long way to go, but it has 158 games under its belt. (and probably the last hundred i haven't had to type "move bar-24"  )
There is no reason for you to switch from JavaFIBS, except as a curiosity or if you want to help advance the project.
I have not selected a license for it yet.  It's been a long time since i've read them all (well, at least the majors).

http://www.buckosoft.com/BuckoFIBS/

dik

[Caliman]

  interesting, hmmm. As i have now my new laptop just awaiting my service provider to get me online, I will definately check it out. Will install javafibs anyway but no harm in having a go! Cheers Dik, im happy to give any feedback etc.

[Tom]

I have not selected a license for it yet.  It's been a long time since i've read them all (well, at least the majors).

I am willing to bet if you select GPL there will be other competent developers out there very willing to help!

tom

[dickbalaska]

... select GPL ...

After reviewing them all, ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category )
BuckoFIBS is now GPL compliant.
I really wanted to do the NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3, but it wasn't appropriate.
Seriously though, i was half way through adding the MPL to the source, but i like the anti-tivoization of the GPL.
I was hoping one of the licenses would have a clause, "If you make changes, you must make a 'best effort' to push your changes back up to the original author".  But the licenses are all about pushing changes downstream and it's up to the original author to (possibly) hunt them down.

dik

[Caliman]

Where is the download for buckoFibs available Dik? Oh just seen the link above lol , thanks

[inim]

If you think about it, much of any FIBS client is not really dependent whether it is a bot or a GUI client. Traditional GPL only requires you to open your changes to the public if you DISTRIBUTE your derived software. This doesn't hold for bots, so it is perfectly legal to fork a bot from your client without giving back any change into the public domain.

There is a version of GPL 3 which addresses this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

It is from the FSF and identical to GPL 3, except that it covers the case of offering public services (such as bots) derived from GPLed code. It's the one I for my own work consider most suited in the FIBS context.

[dickbalaska]

If you think about it, much of any FIBS client is not really dependent whether it is a bot or a GUI client.

Thinking about it, i'd guess more than half is not gui related...

LOC:	use:
15498	BuckoFIBS total LOC
6097	network or neutral
8035	gui specific

hmm, or not.

public domain.

Don't say that word!  GPL != public domain.

There is a version of GPL 3 which addresses this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

That looks very interesting.

[dickbalaska]

Version 0.3 looks like this:
http://www.buckosoft.com/BuckoFIBS/screenshots.php