Battle for Wesnoth is a freely available strategy came which is based on fantasy. It is a game for one player or multiple players who have to fight against the 'bad guys' to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth. All these fights will direct the player into new adventures where one can win only with good strategy.
Player has also opportunity to create armies and send them 'elsewhere' to protect oneself.
Possible figures in the game: humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls. There might be more because everybody can customize the game. As I have just started to play it, I haven't seen them all yet.
I like the background music - it adds extra value to the game and makes it more dramatic.
It was very easy and simple to download it as all the necessary files were packed into one.
After I have played more, I can say more. :)
Monday, February 1, 2010
FSF vs OSI
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation which is formed to educate the benefits of open source and connect different constituencies in the open-source community.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation to support the free software movement and to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software.
The comparison of FSF and OSI
The term 'Open source' was created in 1998 and since then its the part of 'Free software' definition. According to this almost all the open source programs are also free software, but there are exceptions.
Free software refers to freedom not price, while open source refers to it as well but with some certain restrictive licenses, which are not acceptable to free software movement (according to Stallman).
Open source is a development methodology, but free software is a social movement.
Free software expresses the view of life. User has following possible rights:
- right to run the program
- to investigate how the program works and adapt it according to one needs.
- right to forward the copy to someone else
- right to change or fix the program and spread it.
Free software is focused to general welfare.
Open Source software is more or less the same, but not exactly the same class of software! Differences are small: nearly all software is open source and nearly all open source software is free.
The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
- free redistribution
- the program must include source code
- the license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
- integrity of The Author's Source Code
- the license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons or fields of endeavor
- license must not be specific to product
- license must not restrict other software
- license must me technology-neutral.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation to support the free software movement and to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software.
The comparison of FSF and OSI
The term 'Open source' was created in 1998 and since then its the part of 'Free software' definition. According to this almost all the open source programs are also free software, but there are exceptions.
Free software refers to freedom not price, while open source refers to it as well but with some certain restrictive licenses, which are not acceptable to free software movement (according to Stallman).
Open source is a development methodology, but free software is a social movement.
Free software expresses the view of life. User has following possible rights:
- right to run the program
- to investigate how the program works and adapt it according to one needs.
- right to forward the copy to someone else
- right to change or fix the program and spread it.
Free software is focused to general welfare.
Open Source software is more or less the same, but not exactly the same class of software! Differences are small: nearly all software is open source and nearly all open source software is free.
The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
- free redistribution
- the program must include source code
- the license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
- integrity of The Author's Source Code
- the license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons or fields of endeavor
- license must not be specific to product
- license must not restrict other software
- license must me technology-neutral.
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