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Jocly is an interesting project that I just found out about. It’s a strategy game platform written completely in HTML5, so it’ll work on any device with a modern web browser. They also have an API so you can develop your own games using their platform.
There’s already a bunch of great strategy games on the site that you can play, and play multiplayer.
You can even get a webmaster API to embed games onto your own website.
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The Checkers game has a bug, you can jump backwards illegally before you have a king!
Jocly implements 9 variants of the Checkers game. In several of them, it is legal to jump backward.
If you still think it’s a bug, you are welcome to enter a bug at http://bugzilla.jocly.com/
Make sure you understand this: “you grant Jocly owners a permanent license to use the code you created or adapted in any way, including commercially”. That’s a big deal, and a reason for me not to register as a developer.
This is correct, as with the Gnu Public License, if you want to have an exclusive ownership of the code, this is not where to start from.
But this is not the same as GPL. With Jocly I’m giving away the license to the owners of Jocly.
You’re not giving away your rights, you grant Jocly a license to use your code (and to other Jocly developers too) but you can still reuse your code anywhere else even in proprietary places. Again, this license may not fit your situation and you can be concerned with it.
From your developer page:
“you grant Jocly owners a permanent license to use the code you created or adapted in any way, including commercially”
This is very different than what I understand are the rights that developers get by signing up. This is asymmetric and I hope Jocly strives to be very transparent about the different rights. From reading your page:
As a developer I can “access the source code of all the games on the Jocly platform, the Code Pool”. But there is no license granted to allow me to do anything with it outside of your environment. In fact, you don’t make it clear at all what the license is for contributions.
I’m really not trying to ascribe malicious intent on the part of Jocly – it sounds like an interesting platform. If your intent is this license asymmetry (we can use your submitted code for whatever we want, you as the developer have no rights to any submitted content from other developers) then that is your choice.