gabrielr

I was cofounder of a startup that lasted about 18 months. We were funded entirely by friends & family. Now that the business is dead and we've moved on to other jobs, we'd like to release some, maybe all, of our proprietary code (currently in GitHub private repos) under a free / open-source license.

Who has done this before? What should we consider?

Legally, I think we're ok: Everyone involved is enthusiastic about open-sourcing and we've been careful with IP assignment and other paperwork.

I'm more interested in the technical and social issues: attribution, reputation, how to best leave it all for posterity.

How much should we clean up the codebase first? Should I re-write the git history? Just release a single snapshot?