Source code for Freeciv-web running on Freecivweb.org
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:22 pm
Freecivweb.org is a volunteer community whose goal is to provide quality games in a free fun environment where players respect and learn from each other.
We are not a company with full-time professionals. We have no legal team nor communications department. We donate our spare time to provide a better Freeciv gaming environment.
Freecivweb's source code is open source. It is true that for a short period, our git repository hadn't been updated with code under private beta testing. For several months Freecivweb.org has been transitioning to a better development process aimed at improving integration with the upstream project. The transition turned out to be more complicated than expected.
A few weeks ago, certain entities related to other Freeciv projects asked for our source code. We are saddened that our need for time was met with hostility, and we are further disappointed that this hostility turned into legal threats towards us. This happened while they helped competing projects that at the time were openly violating AGPL rules.
In the best interest of the whole Freeciv community, let's avoid divisiveness in the future by making sure everyone makes their own projects compliant _before_ launching public campaigns against other volunteer projects.
Thanks to all for having patience. Our new development process will make it easier to improve Freeciv-web, grow the community and keep the current code available.
Freecivweb.org promotes cooperation with the whole Freeciv community and has ideas how to improve that. A further statement about this will come in the near future.
Freecivweb.org's development link at the top of our front page contains all updated source code that is running on our server, including our current private beta.
We are not a company with full-time professionals. We have no legal team nor communications department. We donate our spare time to provide a better Freeciv gaming environment.
Freecivweb's source code is open source. It is true that for a short period, our git repository hadn't been updated with code under private beta testing. For several months Freecivweb.org has been transitioning to a better development process aimed at improving integration with the upstream project. The transition turned out to be more complicated than expected.
A few weeks ago, certain entities related to other Freeciv projects asked for our source code. We are saddened that our need for time was met with hostility, and we are further disappointed that this hostility turned into legal threats towards us. This happened while they helped competing projects that at the time were openly violating AGPL rules.
In the best interest of the whole Freeciv community, let's avoid divisiveness in the future by making sure everyone makes their own projects compliant _before_ launching public campaigns against other volunteer projects.
Thanks to all for having patience. Our new development process will make it easier to improve Freeciv-web, grow the community and keep the current code available.
Freecivweb.org promotes cooperation with the whole Freeciv community and has ideas how to improve that. A further statement about this will come in the near future.
Freecivweb.org's development link at the top of our front page contains all updated source code that is running on our server, including our current private beta.