<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class="">Hi RoboCuppers!<br class=""><br class="">The team B-Human announces the availability of our 2017 code release at<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/bhuman/BHumanCodeRelease" class="">https://github.com/bhuman/BHumanCodeRelease</a><br class=""><br class="">The release comes with an extensive team report (197 pages) that describes the current state of B-Human's software system. The software released is a cleaned-up version of the system we used in the RoboCup 2017 finals.<br class=""><br class="">However, most parts of the behavior have been removed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Our software is released with its own 3-D simulator. Microsoft Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and macOS are fully supported.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">The release also includes the module Walk2014Generator that is based on the class of the same name from the 2016 code release of the team UNSW Australia. The team (now UNSW Sydney) kindly gave us the permission to release the module under our license as part of our code release. Many thanks to UNSW Sydney and Bernhard Hengst, the original author of the Walk2014Generator!<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The license under which we release our code is the same as in previous years. However, since some teams did not really comply with that license in the past, I would like to cite the two most important paragraphs of the license here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">4. If the source code or parts of the source code shall be used for a RoboCup competition, the competing program must differ in at least multiple major parts from the original distribution. "Major parts" means own contributions to the RoboCup goal, which are potentially publishable and usually manifest themselves as new modules (i.e. source code) and not just as a parameterization of existing technology (e.g. walking parameters, kicks, behavior options).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5. For each B-Human code release from which parts are used in a RoboCup competition, the usage shall be announced in the SPL mailing list (currently <a href="mailto:robocup-nao@cc.gatech.edu" class="">robocup-nao@cc.gatech.edu</a>) one month before the first competition in which you are using it. The announcement shall name which parts of this code are used. It shall also contain a description of the own contribution that addresses the criterions mentioned above.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We require the timely announcement to that mailing lists for two reasons:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. We need the time to check whether the changes described in the announcement fulfill the criteria mentioned in section 4. This also means that the description should be detailed enough so that we can make such an assessment. Otherwise, we will ask back for more details (we have not done that in the past, but we will do it in the future). If we are not satisfied, we will report a violation of our license to the SPL technical committee.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. The announcement to <a href="mailto:robocup-nao@cc.gatech.edu" class="">robocup-nao@cc.gatech.edu</a> is important, because it enables all members of our community to put the results achieved in the competition into context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From now on, we will consider announcements that come too late as a breach of our license.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please note that the new code is released within the same repository that we used for our previous releases. The old releases are marked with tags in that repository.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">Have fun :-)<br class=""><br class="">Team B-Human<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>