Free opensource chess webapp Lichess steadily improves (1.8 mil games played) (en.lichess.org) 50 points by zoka 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] perfunctory 14y ago ↗ The gradient highlighting of the squares and some of the animation is a little distracting. Otherwise looks like a very good alternative to chess.com. I'll definitely give it a try.
[–] a3_nm 14y ago ↗ Great project, but notice that the license is CC-BY-NC, which is neither FSF-compliant nor OSI-compliant because it fobids commercial use of the work.https://github.com/ornicar/lichess/blob/master/LICENSEInterestingly, the license used to be MIT: https://github.com/ornicar/lichess/commits/master/LICENSE
[–] ouchiboy 14y ago ↗ Losing against their level 1 computer player reminded me of how bad I'm at chess...
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Interestingly, the license used to be MIT: https://github.com/ornicar/lichess/commits/master/LICENSE