On Sep 11, 2:17 pm, Rory Becker <RoryBec...@newsgroup.nospamwrote:
Thanks for the info! I would not want someone to take my open source
idea, and create a proprietary application using my idea. What type of
license will I need for that?
This is the troubling issue that I went through. I'm afraid I do not know
whoch licence (if indeed any provided by google) would suit the licencing
of "The Source" with a non-commercial clause.
I ended up opting for the MIT licence. From what I understand this lets anyone
do what they want with the Code itself as long as they maintain my copyright
on the original code.
I would have liked to have a non-commercial clause of some kind but 2 things
stopped me fom ultimately feeling as if I needed one.
1.I was creating a project who's purpose was to aid a community in a particular
area ( VS.Net plugin development through the DXCore (by DevExpress) ) As
such I didn't think there was very mucgh chance that someone could take
what I had done and try to sell it as the potential market is simply not
that big.
2.I was (and still am) hoping to enthuse the community to the point where
they would rather contirbute to the existing software project that rip it
off and astart a copy elsewhere.
These points may apply to you or not. I cannot tell in advance :)
Using google code, can other developers
check in/out their contributions?
Google code has 3 levels of membership of a project.
1.Not a member : can read all the code and contributes comments to the wiki
2.Member : can contribute code and edit wiki pages
3.Administrator/Owner : can administer the project
I hope this helps :)
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Rory
