While getting more and more emails from developers asking for a open source project I will have a look around in the open source world to find a good license and place where to put the source code. First I have to talk to companies that are already using the ajax.dll in their projects what they think about this.

I will write here on my blog in the next days where you can have a look on the source code.

Update: Yesterday night (German local time) I put the source code on a workspace at http://www.gotdotnet.com/. Today I noticed that somebody modified source files removing the Copright that was placed in top of the files. I have removed the main files, sorry.

9 Comments

• Samuel Winter said Monday, April 18, 2005 7:26:00 PM

  Michael, is that the correct url??

• Michael Schwarz said Monday, April 18, 2005 7:39:00 PM

  Yes, it is the correct url.

• Hartvig said Monday, April 18, 2005 7:55:00 PM

  If you wish to make the ajax.net available for everyone to use, I suggest you look at the LGPL license or the MIT License...

• buk said Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:07:00 AM

  I have to agree with hartvig.
  
  thanks for your efforts.

• Mark Monster said Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:22:00 AM

  A great step forwards. Now everyone can put some effort in Ajax.NET. We are really going somewhere from now on.
  
  Thanks.

• Brennan Stehling said Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:17:00 PM

  You could make it an Apache or BSD license. That will allow people with the most freedom to integrate it with a product. It does not require that they commit changes back to the project but most do. I find it is the most business friendly.
  
  I am also curious who changed your files to remove the copyright. Right now that website is extremely slow and I cannot seem to get anywhere. Maybe you could find another host. I would avoid Source Forge because that is also slow and overloaded. I will contact you about someone who could host it for you.

• Damien McGivern said Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:50:00 PM

  Michael you should be able to find out who edited the files as I'm sure GotDotNet has a log for each files updates.
  
  Damien

• Mike said Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:25:00 PM

  I understand that you are upset about someone removing the copywrite from the code. I have been writing software for over 20 years and you have to almost expect that someone will either pirate your software or use it in some way you don't approve.
  
  Removing the software from gotdotnet is not the solution. It is obvious that you wanted to provide the software so that others can benefit and hopefully extend your current work.
  
  Whenever you release the source code to a project you have to expect that some people will remove or modifiy the code in a way you don't approve. You lose total control of the software, and that is something you must accept.
  
  I don't agree with the actions of that one person, but that is not really a reason to prevent others from benefiting or assisting you with your efforts.
  
  

• Joel Martinez said Friday, April 22, 2005 9:38:00 PM

  Dang it ... that sucks. How very ungrateful for someone to do this to your work (which, by the way is fantastic). Let me just cast a vote to encourage you to revisit the open source model, though you'll certain get asshats who will take your work and call it their own, the benefits this brings the rest of the (development) world is quite immense.
  
  And for the record, I like this ajax wrapper so much, that I wouldn't even mind if you released it as a obfuscated binary only distribution (as long as it worked ;-) ).