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GotDotNet Samples - To Open Source or not?

Yesterday I posted Merlin - The Wizard Generator in the User Samples section of GDN.

Looks like the app is quite a success, and I had a quite positive feedback on it. However, in one of my visits to GDN I saw it was rated one star by someone. Looks like this guy was looking for the source code of the application, which made me wonder - should I supply the code? I couldn't find any formal policy in GDN about whether or not a source code should be provided to the user samples.  I've looked into other samples at GDN, and not all of them have the code with them.

Note that I'm not talking about the workspaces, but about the samples.

I don't feel that Merlin's code is ready for release yet (Hey, it's only v0.8!), and I'm not sure I would like to release it when it will be complete, for my own reasons.

Am I missing something? Do you think I should release the code if I post it on GDN? Is there any policy unknown to me that code should be posted with the binary files?

Posted: May 18 2004, 02:05 PM by memi | with 7 comment(s)
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# May 18, 2004 2:26 AM

Anon said:


I reckon it's your code so you do what you please with it. Don't let one person force you into making a mistake where someone might take advantage of all your hard work.

Not all of us FOSS zealots are the same. Some of us realise that the whole point is about choice, not trying to force someone to release something they don't want to.
# May 18, 2004 7:38 AM

Brix said:

There is no much documentation or walkthrough about templates.
I am one of the guys who would want to see the code more for a learning process than anything else.

I also thought that gotdotnet was about learning dot net through examples by providing code.
I have got it wrong then?


Thanks
# May 18, 2004 8:32 AM

Greg said:

I agree it's your code, your work, your effort so handle it as you feel right...

But I also would like to see the code.

Always wigs me out a little when a GDN "Sample" doesn't include the code sample... While it might not be against the letter of the GDN law, it feels it's against the intent.

Also running EXE's from vendors you know is scary enough, let alone from an "unknown" on GDN. Not saying this applies to you :) but do YOU trust your machine to any unknown EXE you get from GDN or other like site? Or do you feel safer when you know you have the code bits to review?

I think you'll get more people interested in you and your work if you release the source with the EXE on GDN (once it's ready of course).

Still, so far, your app is pretty cool... :)

# May 18, 2004 10:38 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

I thought that "User Samples" was the area where users were able to share their code samples. I did not find any description on the site that backs that up, though, so I don't know why I had that idea.
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