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, 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 Contractual 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-centric 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 2000 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.

Re: WhyMozdev

Eric Jung states that with regard to whether "Project Owner Retains
Copyrights" on SourceForge that "by uploading code to SourceForge.net, you
grant SourceForge a perpetual proprietary license, in effect handing over
the copyright to SourceForge1". He bases this on the following passages
from the SourceForge Terms of Service:

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"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."
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However, the previous paragraphs of those same Terms of Service
specifically stipulate:

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"Except for Feedback, which you agree to grant COMPANY any and all
intellectual property rights owned or controlled by you relating to the
Feedback, COMPANY claims no ownership or control over any Content. You or
your third party licensor, as applicable, retain all intellectual property
rights to any Content and you are responsible for protecting those rights,
as appropriate.

With respect to SourceForge.net Public Content, the submitting user
retains ownership of such SourceForge.net Public Content, except that
publicly-available statistical content which is generated by COMPANY to
monitor and display SourceForge.net project activity is owned by COMPANY."
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Viewed in this context SourceForge recognizes that SourceForge developers
retain ownership and (copy)rights of their content but exacts a
GPL/Commons-style license from them. This would only be a problem if the
license you had in mind was more restrictive. In this case an open-source
hosting site might not be your venue.

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Submited by : Descargar Libros

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