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New Site Makes OSS Development Easier

Posted by timothy on from the snippets-of-gpl-joy dept.

An anonymous reader submits "OpenSnippets is a fledgling online community for OSS developers. New members are welcome to submit articles and code of interest, and everyone can view/download the code! It's blog-styled with topics for most popular languages. How useful- I only wish it'd make my coffee..."

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  1. Not "Open", but GPLed by aziegler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The default licence assumed is apparently GPL, which isn't open -- it's GPL. I can't use GPLed snippets in my code that I wish to make BSD or MIT or MPL licensed.

    Great idea, lousy default licence choice.

    -a

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    1. Re:Not "Open", but GPLed by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Interesting

      After reading this story, I posted a GPLed snippet of my code on the site.

      If someone emailed me and said they would like to put it in their BSD licensed application, I would grant them a specific permission.

      I have a feeling most people that license their stuff under GPL would have similar feelings about small snippets of their GPL code. It can't hurt to ask, not everything has to be a huge political battle, we are all programmers here.

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