License question regarding input/output values

andre2007 · August 20, 2019, 10:37am

Hi,

As a highly interesting programming language is not supported and likely will not be supported in the next years I have following idea:

The user reads the puzzle description on your web page. The input / expected output values are available on a local programm written be me. The programm will then execute the tests locally on the computer.

The question is whether the input/output values are your Intellectual Property or you would allow this usage?

Kind regards
Andre

java_coffee_cup · August 20, 2019, 12:11pm

Do you mean you want to send a spider or crawler to collect every reachable validator in/outs and keep the data locally?

andre2007 · August 20, 2019, 12:42pm

No spider/bot. Manually solving the puzzles, looking at the input values / expected output values and writing them down.

java_coffee_cup · August 20, 2019, 1:05pm

This way you are collecting the test cases. I see no problem as I believe it is covered by a very loose Creative Common license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) which says you are free to copy and redistribute with just a little bit restrictions.

andre2007 · August 28, 2019, 9:10pm

Thanks a lot. I started the work here (https://github.com/andre2007/coding-puzzles) and got the onboarding sample working.

The actual onboarding puzzle looks like this:

github.com

andre2007/coding-puzzles/blob/master/source/cp/puzzles/codingame/easy/onboarding.d

module cp.puzzles.codingame.easy.onboarding;

import std;
import cp.puzzles.puzzle;

class Onboarding
{
    mixin PuzzleBase!(Input, Output);
    
    static PuzzleMetadata metadata()
    {
        PuzzleMetadata metadata = {
            name : "cg.easy.onboarding",
            description : "https://www.codingame.com/ide/puzzle/onboarding",
            gameLoop : true
        };
        return metadata;
    }
    
    @Testcase

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The-descent puzzle looks like this:

github.com

andre2007/coding-puzzles/blob/master/source/cp/puzzles/codingame/easy/thedescent.d

module cp.puzzles.codingame.easy.thedescent;

import std;
import cp.puzzles.puzzle;

class TheDescent
{
    mixin PuzzleBase!(Input, Output);
    
    static PuzzleMetadata metadata()
    {
        PuzzleMetadata metadata = {
            name : "cg.easy.the-descent",
            description : "https://www.codingame.com/training/easy/the-descent",
            gameLoop : true
        };
        return metadata;
    }
    
    @Testcase

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@TwoSteps If you see any issues (Intellectual properties…) please tell me.
As I even do not use any values from CG but develop the puzzle quest logic
on my own, there should be no issue at all.