On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:30, Carsten <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I would like to host my GPL licensed project at Google Code, but the > project relies on several external libraries like zlib, libpng, > libjpeg, freetype, wxWidgets, etc., that are all under different (but > unlike the main project, non-GPL) open-source licenses. > > Would it comply to the Google Code guidelines when such libraries were > imported to the repository, e.g. under a vendor/ subdirectory? > Unfortunately, no. This is also discouraged because it bloats your repository with stuff that is not your project. We've already granted quota increases to projects where 90% of the space they used were jar files for stuff *other* than their own code, and that's not really cool :). The usual practice in open source projects would be to have a README file documenting the required dependencies of the project, supplemented by the use of a build system that can detect these dependencies and inform the user what to do if some are missing. All the dependencies you listed are very standard libraries, and I'd be very surprised indeed if any linux distro did not have these dependencies available in their package management hierarchy. For Windows, things are a little more complicated, but for Windows you'd probably create an installer binary that bundles all this anyway, and we've ruled in the past that bundling stuff in the installer (but not the source repository) is acceptable (likewise for OS X .dmg or .pkg files). - Dave > > Many thanks and best regards, > Carsten > > -- > > 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]<google-code-hosting%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
