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Sat, 04/26/2008 - 12:38 by claassenMon, 04/28/2008 - 21:26 by claassen

Per recent exchange on project_owners mailinglist regarding retention of copyright under licensing.

Replaced "Project Owner Retains Copyrights" accordingly by "Free from Required Content Licensing".

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|| **Mirror Network** || Yes || No || Yes || || **Mirror Network** || Yes || No || Yes ||
|| **License Options** || Any [http://opensource.org/ OSI] license|| <a title="List of acceptable Google Code licenses" href="http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/files/www/google-code-licensing-options.png">See list</a> || <a title="List of acceptable SourceForge licenses" href="http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/files/www/Capture.png">See list</a> || || **License Options** || Any [http://opensource.org/ OSI] license|| <a title="List of acceptable Google Code licenses" href="http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/files/www/google-code-licensing-options.png">See list</a> || <a title="List of acceptable SourceForge licenses" href="http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/files/www/Capture.png">See list</a> ||
-|| **Project Owner Retains Copyrights** || Yes || ? || Yes <sup><a href="#f1">one</a></sup> || +|| **Free from Required Content Licensing** || Yes || No <sup><a href="#f1">one</a></sup> || No <sup><a href="#f1">one</a></sup> ||
|| **Blog** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || No || No || || **Blog** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || No || No ||
|| **Wiki** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || Yes || Yes-homegrown || || **Wiki** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || Yes || Yes-homegrown ||
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|| **Non-profit Organization** || Yes || No || No || || **Non-profit Organization** || Yes || No || No ||
|| **Project Owner can earn money through ad networks** || Yes || No || Yes <sup><a href="#f2">two</a></sup> || || **Project Owner can earn money through ad networks** || Yes || No || Yes <sup><a href="#f2">two</a></sup> ||
-|| **Maturity** || 2001 || 2005 or 06 || ? || +|| **Maturity** || 2001 || 2006 || 1999 ||
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<span id="f1" name="f1">Footnote one</span> <span id="f1" name="f1">Footnote one</span>
-By uploading code to SourceForge.net, you grant SourceForge a perpetual proprietary license [http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php]. Their [http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/Terms+of+Use Terms Of Service] read (2008-02-22)''“By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through SourceForge.net, you grant Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, fully sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works from, publish, perform, display, rent, resell and distribute such Content (in whole or part) on SourceForge.net and incorporate Content in other works, in any form, media, or technology developed by Company, though Company is not required to incorporate Feedback into any Company products or services. Company reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through SourceForge.net and use that Content in connection with any service offered by Company.”'' +By uploading code or other content to [http://code.google.com/ Google Code] or SourceForge.net, you grant the respective company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license. For specifics see the [http://code.google.com/tos.html Google Terms of Service] under "4. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights" and the SourceForge [http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php Terms Of Use] under "6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights".
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<span id="f2" name="f2">Footnote two</span> <span id="f2" name="f2">Footnote two</span>
SourceForge requires the project owner to use their advertising network, and they share some revenue with you. mozdev has no such requirements, and project owners can keep 100% of their earnings. SourceForge requires the project owner to use their advertising network, and they share some revenue with you. mozdev has no such requirements, and project owners can keep 100% of their earnings.
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WhyMozdev

As an open-source developer, you have many choices as to where to host your projects. For those familiar with our open-source, off-the-shelf tooling, the administrative learning curve is reduced when starting a new project. For those not familiar with our tooling, your learning experience is reusable across the open-source community in general. Mozdev wants to be your hosting provider for all of your Mozilla-related projects. Here's why we think we're the best choice.

General Services

Mozdev Google Code SourceForge
Forums Yes--Drupal No Yes--homegrown
Mailing Lists Yes--Mailman Yes Yes-homegrown
Newsgroups Yes Yes--Google Groups Yes
Scripting Yes--PHP No Yes--PHP
Databases Yes--MySQL No Yes--MySQL
Bug Reporting Yes--Bugzilla Yes--homegrown Yes--homegrown
Revision Control Yes--CVS and soon Mercurial Yes--Subversion CVS and Subversion
Content Management Yes--Drupal Yes--homegrown No
Code Search Coming Soon (MXR) Yes--homegrown No
Native file uploads Not yet (must go through CVS) No Yes--ssh/scp
Mirror Network Yes No Yes
License Options Any OSI license See list See list
Free from Required Content Licensing Yes No one No one
Blog Yes--Drupal No No
Wiki Yes--Drupal Yes Yes-homegrown
News Feed Publishing Yes--Drupal No Yes-homegrown


Mozilla-specific Services

Mozdev Google Code SourceForge
Support for FF3 Secure Updates Yes No No
Update.rdf auto-generation Yes No No
Mozilla-specific community support Yes--mailing lists, newsgroups, and IRC No No
Integration with addons.mozilla.org Soon No No


Miscellaneous

Mozdev Google Code SourceForge
Non-profit Organization Yes No No
Project Owner can earn money through ad networks Yes No Yes two
Maturity 2001 2006 1999







Footnote one
By uploading code or other content to Google Code or SourceForge.net, you grant the respective company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license. For specifics see the Google Terms of Service under "4. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights" and the SourceForge Terms Of Use under "6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights".


Footnote two
SourceForge requires the project owner to use their advertising network, and they share some revenue with you. mozdev has no such requirements, and project owners can keep 100% of their earnings.