[Gsoc] License for code upload to google

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Luciano,

thanks for this useful info.

On 17 Aug 2007, at 19:58 , Luciano Ramalho wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
>
>> Does google not allow the ZPL to be selected somehow?
>
> When you create a new project for hosting in http://code.google.com,
> you have to choose a license from this list: Apache License 2.0,
> Artistic License/GPLv2, GNU General Public License 2.0, GNU General
> Public License 3.0, GNU Lesser Public License, MIT License, Mozilla
> Public License 1.1, New BSD License (I am not sure whether you can
> leave that unselected, though).
>
> However, Google does not expect each of us to create a new project
> there. We can do so if we wish,

You all have been checking your code into svn.zope.org. This is the  
primary repository. Please *don't* create any new projects on  
code.google.com, it would only lead to confusion.

> but we *MUST* upload our code to this project:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/
>
> As you can see in the right column, it says: "License: 	Apache License
> 2.0", which obviously will not be true when about 6000 different
> students upload their code there, from hundreds of different
> codebases.

I see. You're right, this doesn't make sense.

> So the Zope Foundation should contact GSoC to tell them that:
> 1) they'll have change that setting in the google-summer-of-code
> project to read "various" or whatever;

I'll do that.

> 2) they should add ZPL and/or an "other" option to their list of  
> licenses;
>
> These are two separate issues, though. And the first one is much more
> pressing, because this year they are saying that if we don't upload
> our code there, we won't get paid the last installment.

Understood. Note that no matter what the initial front page says, all  
code files should have the ZPL license header (please make sure all  
your code files do!), so this shouldn't be a problem.

> Just so you know, last year there was no such requirement. My code was
> just committed to the Horde project svn, for example. So all this is
> new to the googlers running GSoC as well.

THanks for letting us know!

Philipp