[1]: https://bitcraftonline.com/news/bitcraft-open-sourcing-updat...
(I think there are technical and marketing reasons to be weary of as well, but the degree to which that matters is application specific. The above is universal and will probably continue to be the case through at least a few more major revisions if I had to guess).
> Operate official, unofficial, private or any otherwise competing BitCraft servers
Doesn't this contradict the Apache license? Isn't this "source-available"?
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.
I'd imagine that by making a "BitCraft" server, it actually wouldn't violate the source code license terms at all, but they are putting you on notice that it would violate trademark and copyright on non-code things, so it wouldn't be legal irregardless of the code license.
Contents of the repo are fair game, anything bitcraft related outside the repo is not, and you have to share attribution under Apache - seems fair. I don't see any bitcraft assets or trademark things in the codebase, but I wonder how much of the game logic and play has to change before it's sufficiently different from the things being protected?
But I don't know if it really fits the "Massive" aspect of MMO
Specifically, `spawn_enemy` here: https://github.com/clockworklabs/BitCraftPublic/blob/master/...
It makes many db calls interspersed throughout synchronous code inside the application. Normally I would assume this is super slow and has many round trips (unless it's transparently committed to memory and batched to db later). I also don't see anything about connection pool management eg acquire and release.
Does this code work efficiently because it essentially gets compiled into a type of pseudo "stored procedure" that runs all the application code on the db and as such avoids those problems?
If yes, is that a scalability issue to have so much going on in a heavy infrastructure unit such as a db?
If no, then is there a perf issue here based on my initial assumption?
natebc•2w ago
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...