On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Nikolay Matsievsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, can you please explain why do you think that 'project is not > open source'? How it can be 'not open source' if everybody can > download its source and re-deistribute it, and so on. Is its souce > closed from public usage?
Sorry for the confusion here. The issue isn't whether the source code is visible or not, it's that you're not using one of the nine standard licenses we allow on this site. When you created your project, you labeled it as "MIT license", except that you're using your own, made-up license instead. That's the violation here, and the reason we hid the project. The front page is lying about the project's legal status. Your own license is a bit odd as it is: http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE.txt First, you say it's "for non-commercial purposes only" -- dramatically restricting the context in which it can be used. Not typical of an open source license. Second, the EULA starts out saying that users are given "permission to copy, modify and distribute" the software, but then later on says "you are not allowed to re-distibute this software, or any parts of its source codes (which don't belong to third-party libraries), or any services based on this software, or its parts without a special agreement with WEBO Software." Very contradictory. But I am not a lawyer, nor am I giving you legal advice. Whether or not this is an open source license is a separate topic; even if it were absolutely perfect and doubt-free, the main point is that it is *not one of the standard nine licenses*. Google is fighting open source license proliferation (you can read all about it in our FAQ and docs), and this has always been the policy of Google Code Project Hosting since it launched 4 years ago. We actively want to discourage people from inventing their own licenses, and your project is a perfect example of that. Your only choices are either to re-license the software to MIT (or one of the other eight we allow), or to find a different place to host the project. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on 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.
