Introducing Strongback, a Java library for FRC robots

[randallh]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Assuming the rules stay the same, you'll probably want to release a day earlier.

I wanted to address this in particular. Rule R13 in 2015 was as follows:

R13. Software and mechanical/electrical designs created before Kickoff are only permitted if the source files (complete information sufficient to produce the design) are available publicly prior to Kickoff.

This only refers to software developed prior to Kickoff; it doesn't place any constraints on software developer after Kickoff. If something akin to this rule does appear in the 2016 game rules, then teams could use any past or future version of Strongback, since its source is and will remain freely available on GitHub (including all the files necessary to build the JAR files).