Open-sourcing a mobile app

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Published on 2010-05-16T09:12:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 9:20 UTC
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I'm considering making one of my most popular mobile apps into an open-source project. It has an Android and iPhone version.

While I have used open-source projects and submitted feature requests and bug reports, I have never created an open-source project nor contributed with a patch to an existing one.

What are the top things that I should take into account before opening the source of my project? What specific steps do you recommend taking for open-sourcing a mobile app?

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