Rules question: "released"?
malcolmt on 2008/03/23 06:24
of PointyStick
This is going to sound nit-picky and I apologise for that. What is in the spirit of "released" for the purposes of the competition: is a library that has publically available source code repository, online documentation and has been around for a few years considered "released" and we can use the latest subversion code?
Background: it looks like this should be ok, since a few of the libraries linked to on the rules page are in this category (e.g. pyscumm) as well as code samples at pygame cookbook. I'm considering a browser-based UI for a game and want to use Django to get rid of the fuss of server -> browser interaction and to be able to supply a small webserver as part of the game download (therefore, no setup required). So everything's publically available and it's documented to the point that anybody could use it, but there hasn't been an official tarball made in 11 months.
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richard on
2008/03/23 15:30:
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2008/03/23 17:27:
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2008/03/26 00:09:
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2008/03/26 03:01:
TenjouUtena on
2008/03/23 12:23:
When this topic has come up before, typically 'released' has been determined by the amount of documentation that exists for using the library. If there's enough documentation, existing before the deadline, that someone else can reasonably be expected to be able to use the lib, then it's 'released'.Django is almost assuredly allowed.
I'm going to hijack a bit here, tho. Are clips from past pyweek entries valid for use? Either from our own entries or from others'?