Hey David; We're basically trying to encourage a best practice here, mixed codebases are very tricky. That said, I'm not hugely against external dependencies on other open source projects, sometimes people will add a third_party or libs directory that might have libraries or the same or a very compatible license (for instance, a bsd license under a gpl project whose project is registered under the gpl, but not a gpl library under a bsd project labled as bsd, if you get my drift.)
In short, if we see someone mischaracterizing the nature of their project, that is when we ask people to fix or ....well...find another host. But since this is a fairly complex interaction to have with projects, we give the overarching guidance that one license must dominate the project, so you might find apache projects with some mit or bsd components, or GPLv3 with apache, mit and gplv2 sub components, but you should -not- see apache with gpl subcomponents, unless they are licensed under the more restrictive GPL, as so forth. Make sense? Chris On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:21 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 12, 6:07 pm, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Really, a good place to look for our policies is a place like >> http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/FAQ. > > Thanks for both replies. I had seen the FAQ, but my question wasn't > directly handled in the three-or-so questions dealing with licenses. > Still, I can see how there is implied guidance there. > > In any case, the Zeitgeist of gCode is clear enough! :) I'm grateful > for the commentary here. > > David. > > > > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
