I've unbanned the project and owner after receiving an out-of-band message linking to the source code here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/206798/file/resources/youtube-tm-ratings-preview/data/LICENSE.txt#top To the project owner; please update your project page to link to the source code directly, so that the status of the project being open source is not questioned again in the future. On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:54:47 AM UTC-8, Omar Jarjur wrote: > > It's OK to use a Google Code project for just issue tracking and wiki for > an open source project that is hosted elsewhere. > > However, a binary-only project does not qualify as Open Source. No where > on the site linked to from the project page is there any documentation on > how to get the source code for the project. Furthermore, the original > reporter filed an issue asking for the source code, and you did not provide > it. > > If you fix the issue by providing the source code somewhere with clear > documentation on how to get it, and respond to this thread saying you have > done so, then I will unban you and your project. Until then, this project > is a clear violation of our terms of service, and we take those violations > very seriously. > > On Monday, November 18, 2013 8:50:17 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I'm the author of the project. I can't believe you closed the project >> without any notice. The wiki page is linked from my software and you are >> causing a big problem to about 140.000 users. I'm getting several hundreds >> of emails because of this. >> >> The fact that not having a Source tab is intentional doesn't mean it's >> not an open source project. It's been open source for two years and it IS >> open source. I answered you that you could ask me if you needed the source >> code at the moment. >> >> The code of the last version is not yet ready to be published, and it >> will probably take some time. And I would like to make it public in my own >> site. I only opened the project for wiki and issue tracking. But again, the >> project IS open source (and has been for about two years). >> >> So PLEASE, open my project again as soon as possible. I hope that I >> didn't loose everything. Or at least open it for one week so that my users >> (regular people who are in trouble because of your unnotified action) don't >> pay for it, my goodness. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
