On Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:21:15 AM UTC-5, Bernd Nawothnig wrote:
Of course. You can put any data under the control of Git. Git tracks the whole content not specific files.
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I'm frustrated. I know there are a lot of good
programmers here, but am perplexed at the
foolishness of so many. The phrase "under the
control of Git" is helpful I think for making
my point. How do you think GitHub would react
if you want to take part of your project out
of it's control and make it closed source?
Would they tell themselves that they have
nurtured your project and helped you build
it and now you've betrayed them?
Currently I have some open source code here --
http://webEbenezer.net/build_integration.html
..
There's a library and two executables in the
archive. The executables are the middle and
front tiers of an on line code generator.
To be honest, I'm not sure if the middle
tier will stay open source. Someone with a
lot of networking experience has hinted
that is may need to be closed source for
security reasons. (I don't have plans to
make the middle tier closed source at this
time, but could see doing so in the future.)
At any rate, I would be very cautious about
what I put into something like GitHub. If
you later determined the need to make a part
of it closed source, be prepared for the
community to react badly to that.
Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
Making programming fun again
http://webEbenezer.net
"There are four character types among people.
One who says, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours' is of average character, and some say, this is the character of Sodom.
[One who says] 'What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine' is unlearned (lit., [of] the people of the land).
[One who says] 'What's mine is yours and what's yours is yours' is pious.
[One who says] 'What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine' is wicked."