On Sunday 13 Jul 2008 23:02, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, yogesh kunjir
yogeshkunjir@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am student of PGDIT mumbai university. we made aproject on library management system without database software in java, this project is part of our course. we want to release this project in open source for further development. so i just want to ask
- can we release this project to open source
Yes you can provided you (and your teammates if any) have written all the code yourselves and all of you do not have a problem with it.
- If yes how to do this (Pls provide full detail)
All you have to do is: a) Decide on a license to release your software under. There are many to choose from, depending on how much freedom you want to give your users. Look up "Software License" on wikipedia to know more on this subject
A very large proportion of software is released under GNU GPL V2 licence. However there are some loopholes in this licence which allow unscrupulous people to place additional restrictions on redistribution and use. It also did not compel providing the source code when GPL V2 software was used for providing web services. So the GNU GPL V3 licence was created. This licence prevents misuse by above methods and other probable misuses. You would do well to release under the GNU GPL V3 licence. Remember that once contributions start coming in, changing the licence is a major pain.