Releasing Your Code

Multiple part question to all: 1) Have you released full or partial code to any of your projects? 2) What kind of program was it (web mail, groupware, bulletin board, website template etc)? 3) Why did you (not) release it? 4) What kind of license did you use? GPL? LGPL? BSD? Your own mini one? No license? 5) Code Questions: a) What did you do before release? What kind of quality checks did you do to the PHP code? b) What about commenting? c) Code grouping and logic? (Like grouping like functions and classes together) d) What about any hack jobs you did? Did you clean them up totally or just polish them a little or just release as is? Thats probably the only good thing about closed source development, you could write a love letter to your SO or an essay on the Thirty Years War in relation to the fall of the Holy Roman Empire and noone would know 6) What kind of feedback have you gotten? Good (People applauding/thanking you)? Bad (People calling you a jerk and hoping your first born falls in a well and they make a horrible TV movie about it?)? All just complaints about the quality of it? Good suggestions (I think it would be better if here you...)? Any wild suggestions (I think your web mail application should also do taxes for each employee, in addition to doing our internal message board)? 7) What kind of input do you accept from the user? Code replacement/feature additions? 8) Do you still do your own updates to it or is it "abandonware"? a) What kind of updates? Security fixes? Bug fixes? Minor feature upgrades? Major feature upgrades? Complete overhauls? 9) How customized is your PHP app to the end user? Is it stuck saying "THIS WAS DONE BY JOHN SMITH, CODER AND LEAD DIRECTOR" all over? Can they insert their own name to make it more customizable and look like their own? Is it just a library backend? 10) What is the setup of the PHP app like? Is it like "Okay, untar it and there it is" or "Okay, untar it, edit the config file and you are done" or "Untar it and do our little web based configurator to finish" or "Untar it, recompile your kernel, recompile Apache, PHP and MySQL, sell your immortal soul to your neighbor for $1.50 and walk on your hands for 2 weeks"? 11) MySQL Question: When having people install your PHP app and it needs its own MySQL database with custom table structure, what is the best instructions to tell idiots how to do it? - k