Announcing Ideavine!
Today, James Avery and I launched Ideavine, a new open source community for .NET applications. While there are a lot of existing sites that provide hosting for open source projects, Ideavine provides full-stack hosting for mature projects, to help them succeed over the long term. Once your project is stable, has a dedicated user base, and long-term objectives, Ideavine can help you take it to the next level.
Open source has traditionally been a second-class citizen in the .NET ecosystem, but lately, through efforts like CodePlex and ALT.NET, it’s started to gain more traction. We hope to build on that, and through Ideavine, help to bring more legitimacy to open source development on the .NET framework.
You can read more at the Ideavine blog. If you have a project that you think might be a good fit for hosting on Ideavine, feel free to submit an application!
“The goal of Ideavine is to provide full-stack hosting for projects that are interested in making a sustained positive contribution to the open source ecosystem on the .NET platform.”
Without GPL projects? Why?
@Hussein:
The infectious nature of copyleft licenses like the GPL make it difficult, if not impossible, to use work licensed under them in commercial products. If a commercial product wants to use a library licensed under the GPL, it restricts the business model they can use dramatically.
We are only interested in supporting projects that can be used by all projects, commercial and non-commercial alike. However, we will accept projects that are dual-licensed, with one option being a non-copyleft license.