GNU GPL

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 11:18 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:26, Ali Hassan <alihuco at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> 
> 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.

That was my recommendation, along with the rant abut the text box, as I
could not address individual points within his post, by middle posting.
Since the OP, I assume, is unfamiliar with open source projects, a
successful one will have emails tossed hither and yon, back and forth,
refining ideas, concepts and code. And, without being able to middle
post from the get-go, that would be an immediate problem to address. 

At least that was my rationale/advice. I still hate Yahoo. 
<chuckles> Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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