> Tack the GPL (or other such license) onto your project and give it to
> someone. Voila, Open Source.
>
> Okay, you may want to put it on some website somewhere for download. You
> can probably just put it on SourceForge. I think all you have to do is
> sign up, answer some questions, and upload it.
Although, if you have the resources to host it yourself, it's (imo)
preferable to do so, and announce it on freshmeat.net, than to use SF,
especially for a small project with only one or two main developers.
OTOH, if you're expecting there to be a large group of people hacking away
at this thing, maybe you want SF's builtin project management things, like
bug/patch tracking, CVS, etc.
> If you really want to do things the way everyone else does them, find a
> small project on SourceForge that's GPL, download and unpack it. See how
> they've set up the wording for the license, the READMEs and the like.
> I've got a tiny project up there called "dbfdump". Download that and see
> how I did it (well, it uses the Artistic License, but you can substitute
> the GPL for that).
As far as the wording for the license, I just use the COPYING file that
gets generated by `automake --gnu --add-missing --copy`.
Levi
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