Sunday, June 8, 2008

Entity Describer and GoogleCode

Ben suggested putting Entity Describer up on GoogleCode to make it a publicly available tool (which technically it is right now)... But on GoogleCode people will be able to contribute stuff to it! and as Ben put it, "It'll make sure we keep good coding style, since other people will be looking at and using it".

I've had previous projects on GoogleCode because it makes source control for school group projects so much easier, but I couldn't remember if there were any rules ED should be concerned about, so I had another quick look.

-Anything that goes on GoogleCode is Open Source.
-We can terminate the project whenever we wish to and take it off GoogleCode
-GoogleCode can terminate our project if they catch us doing something illegal
-When you create a project, you choose an open source license (
GNU General Public License v3 , Apache License 2.0)
-On set up you establish the project owners and the project members who are both capable of contributing/making changes to the code
-Anyone may download a READ-ONLY copy of the code (ie. Can't commit changes to GoogleCode for this specific project)


Looks good to me.

Terms of Service

2 comments:

Benjamin Good said...

Yes.. Lets go for it. Who knows, maybe we'll even end up getting some help with the project!

plu said...

That sounds good. So set it up as you as the owner and under members:
Eddie, Adrian, Byron, myself, and Mark?

And which license???
Apache License 2.0
Artistic License/GPLv2
GNU General Public License v2
GNU General Public License v3
GNU Lesser General Public License
MIT License
Mozilla Public License 1.1
New BSD License