You're welcome to distribute your product for no charge to the world -- there's nothing wrong with that. But it's not the same as "open source". If the code isn't open sourced and available to the public, then you may not use Google Code (or Sourceforge) for your hosting.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:34 AM, stanley<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am the author of MediaCoder. I didn't know what can you benefit from > doing this. MediaCoder is totally free and charge you nothing. Why are > you chasing us? > > On Jul 7, 4:11 pm, Robert Kausch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I sent an email about this to [email protected] two weeks ago, >> but did not get a response yet. So I am approaching you this way. >> >> The MediaCoder project (http://code.google.com/p/mediacoder/) is >> a closed source, commercial (adware) project that exploits Google >> Code services for hosting their downloads. >> >> MediaCoder started as an open source project on SourceForge a few >> years ago, but they changed to a closed source license and did not >> release source code anymore for at least the last two years. They >> never released any source code on Google Code. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
