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I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made a project on library management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
1. can we release this project to open source 2. If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail) 3. is there any criteria to do this if yes pls tell
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Hi
I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made a project on library management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
1. can we release this project to open source 2. If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail) 3. is there any criteria to do this if yes pls tell
waiting for ur replay
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, yogesh kunjir yogeshkunjir@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made a project onlibrary management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
- can we release this project to open source
Yes you can provided you (and your teammates if any) have written all the code yourselves and all of you do not have a problem with it.
- If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail)
All you have to do is: a) Decide on a license to release your software under. There are many to choose from, depending on how much freedom you want to give your users. Look up "Software License" on wikipedia to know more on this subject b) Create an account on http://sourceforge.net or any similar site c) Create your project on the site and upload your code either as a tarball or check into cvs/svn or both.
Here's a starting point for you to understand a bit about software releases in the FOSS world:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/index.html
On Sunday 13 Jul 2008 23:02, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, yogesh kunjir
yogeshkunjir@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made aproject on library management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
- can we release this project to open source
Yes you can provided you (and your teammates if any) have written all the code yourselves and all of you do not have a problem with it.
- If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail)
All you have to do is: a) Decide on a license to release your software under. There are many to choose from, depending on how much freedom you want to give your users. Look up "Software License" on wikipedia to know more on this subject
A very large proportion of software is released under GNU GPL V2 licence. However there are some loopholes in this licence which allow unscrupulous people to place additional restrictions on redistribution and use. It also did not compel providing the source code when GPL V2 software was used for providing web services. So the GNU GPL V3 licence was created. This licence prevents misuse by above methods and other probable misuses. You would do well to release under the GNU GPL V3 licence. Remember that once contributions start coming in, changing the licence is a major pain.
On Monday 14 Jul 2008, jtd wrote:
[snip] A very large proportion of software is released under GNU GPL V2 licence. However there are some loopholes in this licence which allow unscrupulous people to place additional restrictions on redistribution and use. It also did not compel providing the source code when GPL V2 software was used for providing web services. So the GNU GPL V3 licence was created. This licence prevents misuse by above methods and other probable misuses. You would do well to release under the GNU GPL V3 licence.
GPL v3 does not compel providers of web services using GPL software to make that software available to users. If you want your web service software to be covered under a GPL-like licence for web users, please consider using the Affero General Public Licence v3.
Regards.
-- Raju
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, yogesh kunjir yogeshkunjir@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made a project onlibrary management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
- can we release this project to open source
- If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail)
- is there any criteria to do this if yes pls tell
waiting for ur replay
-- sincerely, योगेश
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