Questions about software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
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Best resource for developing JavaScript curriculum? [closed]
At the risk of being downvoted, I really need the community's input - I am helping put together a post-secondary quality curriculum (vocational school, not university) around open-source languages, ...
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Searching to join an open source [closed]
I've been thinking on joining an open-source project for a while. I'm searching for a project that I can do my first "deep-dive" in one of these areas (prioritized):
Education - anything that ...
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Sourcecode license: free for personal use and modification but no public distibution
Of one of my apps, I want to make the source code "open source" so that others might adapt the code to their personal needs or even contribute improvements but I don't want anybody to publish "my ...
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svndumpfilter Multiple Versions
I have a few questions about the Subversion open source project. I know that there are multiple versions of svndumpfilter (2,3). What are the tradeoffs and benefits of each version? In other words, ...
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“Open-source” licenses that explicitly prohibit military applications
I am a researcher, and in my research I do a lot of programming. I am a big fan of the open-source concept - especially in research, where transparency and reproducibility is already a big part of the ...
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May I keep my program closed source if I link it against a static library of which the source is GNU GPLv2?
I'm putting much work in my program and after it's done I want to just setup a small website and sell each copy of the program but I don't want any legal issues.
Do I have to look for another library ...
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which open source licence to use with my project?
I am working on a software project in my college.
And I want to make it open source. But I want that people to only contribute to the project.
I don't want that they should also release a project ...
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what is the transferability of changes in terms of a GPL license
I have a program that is offered to the public on the web as a GPL program. This is a hobby type project that i stated 3.5 years ago and i have had one collaborator for most of that duration who has ...
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How does an open source software make money? [duplicate]
I would like to know how an open source software make money when it is free.
Even for customer support third parties are willing to support, in that case how does the open source software make money?
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Is it possible to use the Intel C/C++ compiler on Linux to create object files to be linked on Windows?
Why?
Depending on your source the Intel compiler is likely or most definitely the compiler generating the fastest executables for the x86 architecture (5 to 100 % execution time improvement).
Intel ...
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Fake Sample Data: Opensource avatar images of real people? [closed]
When testing and creating prototypes, I'll often use faker to populate my database with fake data that looks real. It can generate real-looking first and last names, phone numbers, addresses, etc.
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Origin of the name “OpenServer” for the SCO Unix operating system
I was looking over the evolutionary history of Unix and Unix-like systems on Wikipedia and one operating system name stood out to me: OpenServer.
Judging from the image, SCO's OpenServer is ...
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Web Application Licensing - Open Source vs Proprietary
I am developing a web application based on a proprietary (but free) JavaScript API. My company is considering releasing our application as "Open Source", but we are unsure of the different licensing ...
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Using third party/ open source controls [closed]
I usually feel reluctant to use any third party or open source controls while coding in Objective-C iPhone due to following reasons.
Open source controls are developed in incremental manner. So once ...
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Source Code Only Allowed With One Open Source Project
I have an open source project that is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 and it's done in Windows Presentation Foundation. I came across someone that sells themes/skins for WPF projects ...
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What is a good license for community submissions to commercial partially closed source software?
I am maintaining a small code base that I am considering selling– but I want to allow developers that use it to submit code for addition to the trunk. This way they can extend the framework and the ...
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Project suggestions for a beginner [closed]
I'm a rather beginner in Python and looking for project ideas. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I just can't think of any ideas for a project which hasn't been implemented before. Also I want to ...
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Most common regex elements [closed]
I have been thinking about a regex tool for beginners. However, regex is a big language with lots of dialects and little tips'n'tricks. Arguably, many of these are unnecessary for a beginner.
I ...
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To open source or sell? How to choose? How to proceed? [closed]
I just wrote a little C# application to sort my MP3 files. I was tired of thinking "Didn't I just hear that artist?" or "How many times do I have to listen to 'The Way You Look Tonight?' (for ...
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How to maintain the 'LICENSE' file?
Many projects on Github comprise a LICENSE file, usually looking like:
Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Mr. Creator
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this ...
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What is the diffrence between the BSD and MIT licenses? [duplicate]
I assume based on this answer that the only difference between the MIT and BSD is the fact that MIT doesn't require credits when redistributing. Is that right? Is there any reason to use one over the ...
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Open Source, Copyright and Trivial Bugfixes
Say a developer has developed a library for their closed-sourced commercial application. Since they want to give back to the open source community, they publish this library under, say, the GPL, but ...
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How do distributed version-control systems deal with fragmentation?
Here is the scenario:
X is the author of a software. X releases v1.0 on an open source license on Github and moves on. People interested in the software fork and improve the software. Now there are ...
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How can a commercially-driven open source project build an open source community?
I'm working on an ambitious, commercially-driven open source project* (it probably falls under Wikipedia's definition of Open Core). I'm an engineer on the project, so I don't have too much sway over ...
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FOSS licensing decision: What to read? What factors to consider? [duplicate]
Which reasoning would you follow to choose one license over another? Which literature would you expect someone to read, if he wants to make a meaningful decision about licensing?
I specifically don't ...
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Assuring Quality and Bug Fix speed in Open Source Python Project
I'm maintaining an open source framework (in Python on *nix platforms if that matters) for the first time in my life. It is pretty much pre-alpha, not much more then a scientific proof of concept, ...
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Internship along with Google Summer of Code? [closed]
I am wondering about how much time Google Summer of Code typically takes. I do have an internship lined up for this summer, but GSoC seems like quite an awesome experience. I also really want to get ...
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Strategy for reading and understanding Node.js code [duplicate]
Concretely I am looking at this 2000 line file of what I will pretty arbitrarily call "mediocre" code.
It's not well-commented
variable names and function names seem consistently intelligent
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What's the most interesting open source project for you? [closed]
Just out curiosity,I'm looking for open source projects. I want to learn about it by reading its source code -- so,I'm asking here,What's the most interesting(s) open source project(s) for you?
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Does open sourcing your work help you?
Are developers actually likely to receive significant help by open sourcing a work in its unfinished stages, or are open source consumers more likely to want something ready to use?
This is ...
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How should you deal with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
I am the maintainer of a project which has a large non-technical userbase. I've been maintaining it for about 4 years now and adding new features as they've been requested.
I'd like to move on to ...
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What should I consider when choosing between taking a MOOC or working on a project?
As background, I've been programming for about 5 years, and feel like I'm somewhat "up to speed" on industry best-practices and techniques (for web development, specifically), as well as software ...
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What is the netiquette for forking other people's open source projects? [duplicate]
I started to get more and more engaged in open source development and I was wondering if there are any guidelines on how to properly document and maintain a fork?
For example, let's say you fork a ...
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Sell software to the world [closed]
Is it possible, and has it ever been done, to create a kickstart.com project, purely to take money to open source a proprietary software?
Would it be possible to license patent protected ideas to the ...
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Developer name in the copyright notice of files contributed to open source project?
I am developing a small application which I want to make open source.
Currently only my work is on the application, and so in all the files I have put up a copyright notice in my name.
Now when I ...
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Where to add the license file?
I have written an application in Python using Tkinter and want to distribute under the WTFPL license. But I don't understand where to add the copying.txt file that needs to be added in the folder that ...
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OwnCloud App Licensing
I'm a bit confused about the OwnCloud licensing model. OwnCloud is an AGPL licensed product (at least the open source version is). Does that mean that the only license I can use for an OwnCloud app I ...
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If I accept contributions under a CLA, can I write “Copyright (c) My-Name”?
I'm thinking about open sourcing a project of mine. I'd accept contributions under a CLA that grants me a copyright license (I'll explain what I mean at the end of this question). — Now, if someone ...
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Steps to open source a small project [duplicate]
I've been working for a couple of years on a small project, almost by myself, with the eventual help of some colleagues. The project is getting out of my hands, because the size of the code is growing ...
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How to rewrite from scratch a code for which I own the copyright so I can use it on my job without losing the rights to the first version?
Well I don't want to make it open-source! That's the problem. But I do want to use it on my current job. Company did not agree to sign any alternative license with me and told me to rewrite everything ...
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Are these good reasons for moving to Microsoft web development platform?
Background
I do PHP and Ruby on Rails development in my spare time, and have learned quite a bit on my own. I chose those technologies because of the low cost of entry, since everything is ...
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How to know if an Open Source project is mature enough to use in a product?
There are some open source projects that I'd like to incorporate into a product at work. We don't have the bandwidth nor the subject matter expertise to do it ourselves. I found these by searching ...
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Open source licenses (specifically GPL) & gamemaker's source format
Now with gamemaker studio source files are no longer stored in a proprietary format - instead they are stored as simple XML files containing all data. Now I am wondering, can projects created with ...
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What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project?
I'm new to the opensource world. The project I'm working on resides on Github. (Just for reference) The project I'm working on is a plug-in for the Plex Media Server. I plan to submit my plug-in to ...
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Ethics and best practices when forking code base
I have a question as to the proper best practices and ethics revolving forking code.
I've taken code base licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 and brought ...
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What is the etiquette of renaming an open source fork?
I want to fork on Github the TestNG java testing framework (Apache 2 license) so I can add/change some minor things to suit my needs.
It's unlikely that all of my changes would be approved in the ...
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Patching open source software when upgrading is not an option?
I recently ran into a rather annoying (confirmed) bug in an open source software package that I have integrated into my application. According to the public issue tracker this bug has been resolved ...
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Will the Apache License or the GPL License protect my trademarks?
I'm trying to see if these two open source licenses give protection of trademarks to the originator. I have read both licenses but they only seem to talk about their own trademark i.e. 'Apache'.
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Apache License and patents
I am trying to understand how Apache License affects patents. In regards to the Apache website http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 section 3, am I right to say for the first part that it is ...
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Should I create a new open project to replace an existing one?
Recently I was looking at an open source project to contribute to however after going through the ugly code base (which seems to break quite a bit) and reading some things about the current maintainer ...
