For what i know, in you wanna release it in opensource as GPL, in webservices the most appropiate license is AfferoGPL, that assure you that any modifications at code should be distributed again.
More info: http://www.affero.org/oagf.html I hope that this helps. Regards! On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Michael Ellis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com>wrote: > Chris, thanks very much for the detailed reply! Based on your > feedback, it looks like Google Code will be more than adequate for > hosting the project. > > You've also helped me move a little closer to the GPL licensing > model. I'll probably carve out a commercial exception for unmodified > binary distributions similar to what Massimo has done for web2py and > also imitate his handling of third-party contributions. > > As to Eclipse, perhaps I'll look into it again in the future. I know > it's a favorite of a number of programmers I respect. I ran into > problems getting it set up under Snow Leopard so for the time being > I'll stick with Vim + Winpdb + Chrome DevTools, but thanks for the > recommendation and it's good to know that Eclipse plays nicely with > Mercurial under Google Code. > > Cheers, > Mike > > On Aug 16, 7:43 pm, Christopher Steel <chris.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > Sounds like an interesting project. We generally stick with GNU but in > > some cases incorporate MIT stuff (and the accompanying license) when > > it makes sense for our clients. > > > > The biggest deciding factor for us is our target market, but at the > > moment we have no clients who seem to be overly concerned about this > > issue. As a non-profit If the product we are producing is something > > that we really want adopted commercially with no hesitation by even > > the most picky clients (for example accessibility enhanced products) > > then we may go with MIT in cases where one or more of our target > > markets seems overly concerned about real or perceived issues > > surrounding GNU. > > > > Other than that GNU is pretty much our standard unless of course we > > are building on pre-existing MIT stuff. > > > > So in a nutshell I would say it depends on your target market and your > > market strategy so to speak. We want to encourage as many people as > > possible to participate in anyway they choose to including > > contributing to the code base and feel that GNU is a way to attract > > individuals with similar goals and strategies. MIT works for us as > > well and satisfies some more traditional strategies as well as > > allowing "sharing" and sometimes when we don't feel we could do a > > better job on MIT products we incorporate them cause they are are of > > good quality and are highly accessible (open source, no cost and/or > > licensing fee) to everyone. > > > > On Google Code > > > > We use Google Code and we really like it. Again it is highly > > accessible (low cost and works with most TTS) In addition Google was > > nice enough to bump up our project limit as well due to our official > > non-profit status just because we asked and as you mentioned it works > > well with Mercurial, our fav versioning system. > > > > In addition we use Eclipse which can be configured to Google Code / > > Mercurial ... all for no cost so we find that it is a hard combo to > > beat although it would be nice if someone did! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > On Aug 16, 4:14 pm, Michael Ellis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > I've been working for the past few months on a group collaboration and > > > problem solving application and am almost ready to put up a beta > > > version on GAE for folks to experiment with. Many thanks to Massimo > > > and all of you regulars here for helping me up the learning curve! > > > > > The app is called PeerTool and is a complete re-write in Python and > > > web2py of a commercial app I developed in PHP about 6 years ago. My > > > intent is to provide a free public access site that any group may use > > > and also to release the code open source. > > > > > I'll post an announcement here when the time comes, hopefully in the > > > next week or two. In the meantime, I'd be grateful for advice or > > > suggestions in two areas: > > > > > 1. Choosing the most appropriate license. My primary goal is to > > > make the product as widely useful and available as possible. I > > > believe it could be of benefit to almost any team, task force, board, > > > or committee that wants to use brainstorming and collaborative > > > evaluation of ideas (with real-time interaction!). > > > > > 2. Most appropriate hosting for the project source code. I've never > > > started a public project before and would like to know what > > > experiences others have had with Google Code, SourceForge, etc, -- > > > especially concerning web2py apps. I'm leaning toward Google Code at > > > present. My code is already under Mercurial so it seems like that > > > would be a good fit. > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Mike >
