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Yes, it is possible to make an open source project into a closed source project. The copyright holder can change the license of a project at any time, or cease to distribute source code of new releases. New releases can therefore be made closed source.
Always Address Issues One good way to make sure that your project continuously improves is to address issues opened by your peers. No one will show interest in contributing to an open-source project if it doesn't address potential bugs, security issues, or feature addition.
For the purposes of this wiki, a piece of open-source software may be added to this category if neither a stable nor developmental release has been made by the project team in a period of three years or greater.
Say I had an open-source project which I wanted to try and generate some exposure for. Would it be considered unethical to set up a project entry for it on several sites such at github, sourceforge and google code, for example?
This would be purely for giving it greater exposure. I realise there might be some practical reasons for doing this, such as wanting to use github for source control, and sourceforge for issue tracking, forums and such. For the sake if this question I'm wanting to focus more on the case where you use one of the sites as the main site for the project, and make "stub" projects on the other sites that point back to the main site.
My gut feeling is that while it may not be outrightly unethical, it might be bordering on the sleezy side...
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