This was a useful reply by Jim that I should forward to the list for
everyone's benefit... I have a feeling I may get complaints about my
reply-to header (I didn't really follow any of the 40 threads on it), I
have one reponse: Suck it up.

Michael.

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 20:16, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:31 PM, Michael wrote:
> > How do you qualify to get something on sourceforge?
> 
> Simple enough. Just describe the project, give it a unique name, and 
> promise to use an OSI license for it. Takes about a day or so for the 
> project pages to be put together, although they quote up to a week.
> 
> Savannah will host a GPL-compatible project, and there are a few other 
> code repositories out there too.
> 
> The problem is that there are so many projects that cover the same 
> ground, it's difficult to see when something of yours might get taken 
> up, if the repository was your only listing method. Perhaps a big "This 
> Project Is Not Abandoned, It's Finished To My Initial Requirements" 
> notice might help ... :-)
> 
> -jim
> 
> >
> > Michael.
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:08, steve wrote:
> >> ... that people can dump projects that they think may be of some use 
> >> to
> >> other members? Is there any interest? Joint development, or is that
> >> mainly in the Netherlands?
> >>
> >> For example, I've written a q+d php program that adds your cd to a
> >> database... just waits for a cd/cross references against cddb/write
> >> title,tracks etc to MySQL db/spews it out and waits for another one.
> >> Useful if you ever get all your CD's stolen ( which was both why I 
> >> wrote
> >> it, and the reason I left the UK ):
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 

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