SpacetimeDB looks interesting as a concept (the tech behind this server) but I could never sus out how could it would be in actual practice. I’ve always been interested in some post-mortems or reflections on the tech from other companies besides the founders
You can use the source code to build your own MMO, but not one that replicates BitCraft's servers. Since the assets themselves are not open sourced, it wouldn't really be possible to do that anyway.
It's much more permissive than source available: you can use the source code for nearly any of your own projects, just not one specific application.
Being able to use the software for any purpose is Freedom 0 of the 4 Freedoms, so this wouldn't count as free/libre software according to the FSF.
Interestingly, though, I can't see where it contradicts the Apache license nor the open source definition according to OSI. Neither seem to specify freedom of use. I imagine that's because copyright licenses are generally about copyright, and "using" the thing isn't generally part of copyright. Maybe they thought it sufficed to leave it implicit that you should of course be able to use the thing.
Now I'm wondering if ebook licenses are explicit on the permission to read the book.
This is really cool. If you've never seen it before BitCraft is quite a lot like Runescape. Great art style and very crunchy gathering/crafting gameplay.
The developer open sourcing all of this is awesome.
SpacetimeDB looks interesting as a concept (the tech behind this server) but I could never sus out how could it would be in actual practice. I’ve always been interested in some post-mortems or reflections on the tech from other companies besides the founders
> You cannot:
> Operate official, unofficial, private or any otherwise competing BitCraft servers
Doesn't this contradict the Apache license? Isn't this "source-available"?
You can use the source code to build your own MMO, but not one that replicates BitCraft's servers. Since the assets themselves are not open sourced, it wouldn't really be possible to do that anyway.
It's much more permissive than source available: you can use the source code for nearly any of your own projects, just not one specific application.
Being able to use the software for any purpose is Freedom 0 of the 4 Freedoms, so this wouldn't count as free/libre software according to the FSF.
Interestingly, though, I can't see where it contradicts the Apache license nor the open source definition according to OSI. Neither seem to specify freedom of use. I imagine that's because copyright licenses are generally about copyright, and "using" the thing isn't generally part of copyright. Maybe they thought it sufficed to leave it implicit that you should of course be able to use the thing.
Now I'm wondering if ebook licenses are explicit on the permission to read the book.
This is really cool. If you've never seen it before BitCraft is quite a lot like Runescape. Great art style and very crunchy gathering/crafting gameplay.
The developer open sourcing all of this is awesome.
Here's an blog post from them last year covering their open source plans: https://bitcraftonline.com/news/open-sourcing-bitcraft-onlin...
Apparently they are planning to also open source the game client in the future [1], which seems cool.
[1]: https://bitcraftonline.com/news/bitcraft-open-sourcing-updat...