[Gsoc] License for code upload to google

Philipp von Weitershausen philipp at weitershausen.de
Fri Aug 17 12:39:28 EDT 2007


On 17 Aug 2007, at 18:08 , Nikhil N wrote:
> The time for final code update to google has arrived. I would
> like to know the license to be given in the project hosting page
> for google. The Zope Public License is not listed in that page.
> This license being GPL compatible can it (GPL 2,GPL 3,
> Lesser public license etc) be used as an option for the
> uploading?.
> I have noticed many Zope related projects in the same
> site using these licenses (GPL 2 mostly).

The mentoring organization, in other words the Zope Foundation,  
decides the license of the code [1]. The Zope Foundation prefers the  
ZPL, so this should be the license that you should use.


[1] http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? 
answer=60328&topic=10728




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