Project-X FAQ

[Mac_Fife]

I have the feeling that we may need a FAQ page to go with Project-X at release. Something to answer the obvious questions that will arise, such as "Where do I find the sources?", "What is the deal with licensing?", "Why are there empty folders?", "How do I build...?", etc.

I'm suggesting that if folks post Q's and A's that seem relevant to their own fields in this thread, then I'll try to compile them into a page, probably for the wiki - the wiki has a hyperlinked TOC by default which makes it a bit easier for creating FAQ.

[JWPlatt]

You snagged some of my questions, Mac.

Does Cyan actually know you're doing this?

I want to play NOW. Where do I download the game?

Is it now legal to run a public shard?

Is it now legal to run a public (or private) shard using the "Complete Chronicles" or "Until Uru" codebase?

I want to set up a shard. How do I download and run a server?

Where's the Cyan server download? (Cyan needs to do more work on it - it won't be soon.)

What's this MOSS thing?

Does MOSS grow bigger when it Drizzles?

Where do I get the content? (Btw, I've confirmed with Mark that MOULa will be the content server for now...)

What's the license on the content? (...and there is no content license yet.)

[a'moaca']

Does MOSS grow bigger when it Drizzles?

Of course not. It grows bigger when the stone stops rolling! And MOSS does not need Drizzles to grow.

[Mac_Fife]

And as long as The Stones keep rolling, then I'm not getting old

But seriously, the questions are great. Now we just need some answers to go with them!

[Mac_Fife]

I transcribed most of the questions listed above onto a FAQ subpage off the CyanWorlds.com Engine page: http://squee.openuru.org/index.php?titl ... Engine/FAQ

I've had a stab at providing answers to most of these, but please feel free to edit/amend/re-write as you see fit. A few things probably need dedicated articles to fully explain - those should be relatively apparent in reading over the FAQ as it stands.

[rarified]

I'll take a look over the weekend now that some of the time pressure is off.

_R

[a'moaca']

I would not say there is "no content license". There is one. It's in the MOULagain EULA. There is just no license to allow us to modify or redistribute content.

- a'moaca'

[Mac_Fife]

Yep, text amended.

[JWPlatt]

What are my open source license (GPLv3) responsibilities as a user, developer or server operator (e.g. shard owner)?

What if I'm an age (world) builder?

[Mac_Fife]

It'd be nice if folks would suggest answers as well as questions

("Don't bring me your problems, bring me solutions" - innumerable managers)