Checking in on CodePlex (The Standards Blog) [LWN.net]

A few weeks ago LWN talked with Sam Ramji about the CodePlex Foundation. Since then the Foundation has published its new Project Acceptance and Operation Guidelines (PDF). Andy Updegrove takes a look at the new guidelines. "The Guidelines and recent reviews with Sam also provide more detail on what types of work the Foundation hopes to undertake. I think that two of the projects that are described in the Guidelines can be particularly useful. The first (mentioned earlier) is intended to provide a resource to help developers understand not only what individual OSS licenses say, but how they fit together. Given that open source is usually a mosaic of existing and new code, all of which is then further evolved, it's essential that the licensing rules that apply to composite code are compatible, rather than at internal war with each other. If this resource is well done, it will indeed be useful for hosted and outside projects alike."

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