Thanks for clarifying that Nathaniel.

We will address the issue of making the code public immediately.

Best,
Sean Reed



On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:07, Nathaniel Manista wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Sean Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Google Code Hosting,
> 
> We have recently opened a project hosting site on Google Code: 
> http://code.google.com/p/slippery-chicken/
> 
> The open source software we are writing is for the automatic composition of 
> instrumental and computer music, and we intend to include MP3s with examples 
> of the music generated using our software. The music generated will be MIDI 
> files initially, then exported to WAV and MP3 format using instrument samples.
> 
> I read today in the Google Code forums of project sites being closed with no 
> warning because they contained MP3s. We would like to avoid this happening to 
> us and are writing in advance to inform you of the situation.
> 
> Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Sean Reed, Michael Edwards
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up. I'd like to tell you that you're all good but "The 
> software is not yet publicly available but please watch this space if you are 
> interested" in your documentation means that what you're doing isn't actually 
> open-source software development, and until you publish your source you are 
> in violation of Project Hosting's terms of service.
> You don't have to be feature-complete and spit and polish everything before 
> publishing what source you have; and in fact it may be counter-productive to 
> do so. Perhaps check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ.
> Good luck,
> -Nathaniel

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