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I'm thinking of open sourcing some of my RISC OS software such as 
TimerMod. As I see it there are three questions, which I'd appreciate 
your thoughts on.

1) How to handle RISC OS file types
2) Where to host
3) What licence to use

In more detail

1) I moved to using git for all my software a while ago after previously 
using Perforce, neither of these ran on RISC OS at the time, so 
everything has been checked in and out from a Windows or Linux box on to 
a shared directory accessible to RISC OS. Sources are in c and h 
directories and other file types are in the form of filename,xxx as 
crated by either Lanman or Sunfish.

There is now a RISC OS port of git which stores RISC OS files without 
type extensions, and applies the filetypes on checkout. I've not started 
using this yet, given that the port doesn't do ssh, so still requires a 
shared directory.

2) I've already used GitHub for some non RISC OS projects, and know how 
to use if for merges. There is also GitLab, I've not looked at that yet, 
although I should do as I've signed up for access ROOL's locally hosted 
repository.

The main problem with either of those at the moment is the the RISC OS 
version of git can't do SSL yet, so wont be able to access them 
directly, and I ultimately want to allow a RISC OS end to end solution.

3) I could just slap a GPLv2 licence on everything, but does anyone have 
experience of other open source licences which may be more suitable? 
Stand-alone applications aren't such a big problem, but things like 
TimerMod which people may want to use in other applications, may need 
more thought.

Let me know what you think.

---druck

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Open Sourcing druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 13:40 +0100
  Re: Open Sourcing Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 14:51 +0100
  Re: Open Sourcing Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2020-06-14 18:53 -0700
    Re: Open Sourcing Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-06-15 13:37 +0100

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