Show HN: Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school project

theonewolf13y ago· 4 in thread

I'm not sure I'd call "uploading code" to a website "open sourcing."

Where is your LICENSE file? Where are licensing terms discussed?

Open source isn't just code; the license you release under is equally, and perhaps even more, important than the code.

Fair enough criticism here, but this is a high schooler. Instead of coming on strong with HEY WHERE IS THIS AND THAT, understand that he "open-sourced" the project to learn stuff. So since I don't have the proper knowledge to explain the open-source license stuff, maybe you could explain a bit or point to a good read so he/she can continue to learn.

stefan_kendall13y ago

Did you even click the link? This was a 2005 high school project, so the author is 3 years out of college.

sjtgraham13y ago

https://github.com/pate/chessmate/issues/new?title=Please%20...

FreshCodeOP13y ago

Relax, I've added an MIT licence :).

tba13y ago· 2 in thread

Cool project! Anyone trying to run it on *nix will need to open Main.java and replace all instances of the windows-specific file separator "\\" with "/".

jared31413y ago

It should be using the java.io.File.separator[0] constant for platform independence.

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#s...

madsravn13y ago

For future reference, just using slash ("/") will work for both Windows and Unix systems (linux and OSX)

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TannerLD13y ago· 2 in thread

src/build.bat seems to be missing.

gizmo68613y ago

Is this meant to be a joke? Anyway, I believe you mean Makefile is missing.

FreshCodeOP13y ago

Added src/build.bat. Just missed it with my .gitignore settings.

FreshCodeOP13y ago

Will add an MIT licence tonight.

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