[ggo-discussion] Re: gGo, OSS, netlag and cheating

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:22:21PM +0100, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> Hi Peter!
> 
>    I have spent some time thinking about gGo. Here is what I came up
> with: 
> 
> gGo could be splitted into two, separate software packages.
> 
> The first part should be a library, which would serve as the
> local endpoint for IGS connectionss. The clock could be kept by this
> library, which could be be released closed-source. 
> 
> The second part should be everything else, the generic stuff.
> This second part could be GPL again.
> 
> If you do this,
>    - IGS can still feel sure, because the code which
>      is dealing with clock is closed-source.
>    - People who only want to use gGo with GnuGo do not
>      need the closed-source IGS library, so they can keep
>      using free and open-source software.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> -- 
> Csillag Kristof <csillag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hello,

I don't plan to split the application into two packages. This sounds like
unnecassary work and efforts I rather invest in adding new features or
fixing old bugs.

People who only want to use gGo to play against GNU Go can already do this
with the current version.

Regards,

 Peter

Other related posts: