I think this is wonderful news. I alway thought the natural place for GNUbg on on the road - on mobile devices. Too bad I am not likely to have an iPhone anytime soon.
-Joseph On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Leonardo Zide <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is my first post to the list, I'm a long time backgammon player and > gnubg user and first of all I'd like to say thanks for making such a great > game. > > After trying several different backgammon games on the iPhone and being > unhappy with the level of difficulty in those games (they were all either > very easy or cheated), I decided to take a look at what it would take to get > gnubg running on my phone and I was able to get it to a playable state > without too much work. > > I showed the game to a few friends and they encouraged me to polish the > interface a bit and upload it to the App Store so others could enjoy it too > and now I think the game is to the point where it could use some testing and > suggestions from other players. If anyone is interested in taking a look at > the game please send me an email with your UDID and I'll make a build signed > for your phone. > > I'm also a bit concerned about the licensing situation. From what I > understand GPL3 is not compatible with the App Store (one of the reasons of > GPL3 was to stop Tivoization) but GPL2 is fine since pretty much all I need > to do is make the source code available and I have no problems doing that. > Currently I'm using the source from the last 0.15 release but I plan to > downgrade it to before the license changed to GPL3 so it would only GPL2. > > For that reason, I don't know if there would be any interest in adding my > port to the main gnubg code because it's now GPL3 and it wouldn't be > compatible with the App Store so it can't be distributed in any way. I'm not > a lawyer and I don't know if this would be an off-topic discussion here but > I don't want to go through all the extra work of polishing the application > just to have to remove it later. > > In case anyone is curious: I changed very few lines of the main gnubg > code, most of my work was UI related and hooking up my own UI functions > where GTK used to be called. > > Leonardo > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg > >
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