Oh, and as Doug just mentioned in the other thread, there are ways to mitigate the bandwidth consumption of gadgets via proxy servers, so that shouldn't be an issue for well written gadgets.
-DeWitt On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:34 AM, DeWitt Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bandwidth limits aside, keep in mind that you can't just "upload the .xml" > to "say the project is open source." > > Project hosting on Google Code is exclusively available for open source > projects at this time. If you do intend to open source your gadget, you'll > need to upload the source code for your Flash applet, for example. > > A good rule of thumb when hosting projects on Google Code is to ask > yourself a) are all materials made available under a supported open source > license, and b) could users recreate any and all binaries from the source > code provided? > > Assuming you do want to address this, it looks like you should: upload the > source code for the .swf binary, apply the GPL license to both that code and > to the .xml itself, and apply a Creative Commons copyright license to the > .jpgs and the .mp3 files. (But make sure you hold the copyright on those > materials first -- you can't put a CC license on stuff you don't own.) > > If you do turn this into a real open source project then you'll be in a > much better position to petition Google for more bandwidth. > > Cheers, > > -DeWitt > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Znupi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi. I have a google gadget. Its .xml spec is hosted on GPC, two other >> files (one swf, one mp3) are hosted on google code (well, I uploaded >> the xml to google code, too, so i can say the project is open source. >> But no one actually uses that .xml) and about 32 pics (used for >> design) hosted on photobucket. >> >> It's complicated to explain why I ended up with this peculiar setup. >> Basically I made the gadget a couple of years ago and uploaded >> everything to GPC. Now I updated it and realized GPC has bandwidth >> limitations so I moved everything except the .xml to other hosting >> websites (google code and photobucket). >> >> And now I realized photobucket has bandwidth limitations, too, which >> I'm getting pretty close to! I've used 16GB (64%) out of 25GB this >> month and still have 13 days to go (I get about 300-350,000 >> pageviews / week on my gadget)! Pretty close! So I'm thinking of >> moving these images (they're really small, 2-3kb each) to google code. >> I've searched the net and can't find whether or not google code has >> any bandwidth limitations. Does it? Thanks :) >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
