GNU GPL

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:26, Ali Hassan <alihuco at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> Three days ago I sent email about collaboration under GNU GPL mentality. Only one answer respected the topic. Tens of answers created a stream about how Gmail is great. I use the system I like, and you are free not to use it. I think a lot of people are mislead by this strange deviation of the subject.
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Hi Ali, I just now saw your mail to the list.

>From your description it seems that you want to make the code of your
application available to others, in the hope of attracting developers.
That very closely matches one of the ideas of "Open Source" or "Free
Software", abbreviated commonly as FOSS. As you already know, Ubuntu
is licensed with a FOSS license. There are many FOSS licenses, the
most common seem to be the GPL and MIT licenses. The GPL license means
that others can copy, change, and redistribute your work freely, so
long and their changes are also GPL. The MIT license is like the GPL
but those who redistribute your code can do so without making the
source available or even giving any acknowledgement of you.

The first step to making your code available to others is to host it
somewhere accessible, so that others can get to it. Mentioned in an
earlier thread were Sourceforge.net, and I also recommend it.

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