Questions about software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
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Lending epub files for limited time to users
I am looking for components to build a digital library who lends people epub (ebooks) for about a week. It's like a digital version of the offline old public library.
Now I have found several flash ...
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Open source Projects which pays the developers?
Are there any Java open source projects that Pays the developers?
I came across this from a book : Programming Interviews Exposed. Page #25
Are open-source projects preferable?
The vast ...
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How to get a legal advice for a open source project ?
I have a question about open source software.
Questions:
Where do you get legal advice from?
Do you have to find a lawyer specialised in software issues right from the bat, or do you get legal ...
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Is there any well-known commercial project which is currently an open source ? [closed]
I mean is there some open sourced projects that were started as closed source and were commercially successful also? I am also interested in any story behind open sourcing them.
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Best practices for including open source code from other public projects?
If I use an existing open source project that is hosted for example on github within one of my projects, should I check in the code from the other project into my public repo or not? I have mixed ...
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Licensing a JavaScript library
I am developing a free, open-source (duh) JavaScript library, and wondering how to license it.
I was considering the GNU GPL, but I heard that I must distribute the license with the software, and I'm ...
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How do you find partners for open source projects?
I've created a few open-source projects in the past, and had some success. The process was generally the following: I'd start alone, create something that works, promote it, and finally (maybe) get ...
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The Apache License, v2.0: Copyright License vs Patent License
The Apache License, v2.0
[..]
2. Grant of Copyright License
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, ...
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Are there Negative Impact of opensource on commercial environment?
My company has a very broad range of products and there are a few that are not strategic to us so I wanted to open source them (so we can focus on what makes us unique and open source the products ...
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CodePlex and Google Code Concerns
I was wondering about the risks involved with hosting on Microsoft CodePlex and Google Code. Let's say I host a project on one of them and it ends up taking off and getting tons of downloads.
I was ...
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Does using GCC specific builtins qualify as incorporation within a project?
I understand that linking to a program licensed under the GPL requires that you release the source of your program under the GPL as well, while the LGPL does not require this. The terminology of the ...
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Reasons NOT to open source not-for-profit code?
I am a big fan of open source code. I think I understand most of the advantages of going open source. I'm a science student researcher, and I have to work with quite a surprising amount of software ...
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Considerations for accepting contributed code to an Open Source project
I’m working on a "for fun" project in my spare time. I may end up making it Open Source and this makes me wonder what I need to think about if someone cares enough to contribute to it.
Do I need to ...
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Is making my own copyright licence safe?
I've seen various open source libraries (actually I've seen it for assets as well) having a home-baked license in the following manner :
SomeGuy's License:1. You can use this code freely in ...
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What was the first commercial open-source software?
According to the Wikipedia article on open-source, the philosophy of sharing code has been used in projects since the early computer days (mostly through Universities sharing code). However, I'm ...
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Open source projects and MDD?
Model-driven development seems to have a lot of buzz in certain software engineering circles, but I've never encountered an open source MDD projects "in the wild".
Are any open source projects using ...
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Can modifications to open source project be considered trade secret?
While working for an employer if one modifies, rewrites, contributes or alters open source software in what cases can it ever be considered a trade secret?
A trade secret, FWIW, is defined by ...
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Content of AUTHORS file
GNU recommends making an AUTHORS file to list the authors and contributors of a program. But how many "levels" of authors and contributors should the file contain? E.g. if I write a program foo that ...
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What is the best C++ source code to read for a beginner?
I'm trying to improve my c++ coding technique by reading c++ source code. Which open source project would you recommend? Is the code of Boost C++ Libraries a good one?
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Open Source Projects for Beginning Coders? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I find a good open source project to join?
After working as a molecular biologist at the bench for many years, I lost my job last year and am thinking about a ...
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On what name should I claim copyright in open source software?
When I want to use the Apache 2.0 licence in my project, I should include this in the comments of my source code:
Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
Licensed under the Apache License, ...
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Wisdom of using open source code in a commercial software product
I'm looking at using some open source code in my ASP.NET web app (specifically dapper). Management is not a fan, because open source is seen as a risk that has bitten us before. Apparently previous ...
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In need of a divide and conquer approach for re-writing small open-source utilities
Preamble (Skip if you don't like to read)
I've been learning C/C++ in school for a year now and all the assignments in the book, after reading through the chapters, were not too difficult to ...
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Choosing a restrictive license to be in compliance, but not enforcing it
I'm very curious about this: Lets say that you have to use the GPL in your library because some dependency uses it or (if your library is fork) the upstream library uses GPL. Now GPL doesn't play well ...
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Fear of releasing a hobby project - how to overcome?
I don't know if this question is strictly related to software development, but still I'll give it a try:
Like a lot of programmers, I love to work on hobby projects. Sometimes, seemingly good ideas ...
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Governance models for multi-institution open source projects
I'm working on an open source project that has full time professional developers from several universities, plus a couple of other organisations. The product has something like a dozen deployments, ...
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How to keep motivation in hobbyist programming projects? [closed]
There is already a couple of questions here about motivation, but they are related to programming as a job, teamwork and so on.
I have been noticing, that in the past few years my motivation to code ...
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Why do some open source projects do not accept pull requests, but emailing patch files only
Why do some open source projects do not accept pull requests, but emailing patch files only?
e.g. Git
Although they publish code in github or other distributed scm hosting.
It is not interactive nor ...
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Stick with custom or migrate to CMS?
I have a site that has been built from scratch by a few different programmers over time. The first programmer, who built the initial system and database, was not very tech savvy. Other programmers ...
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Should I follow an Open Source project's documentation patterns even if they are bad?
I've considered making modules and the like for various languages and other open source things. Where documentation is not specified but rather is communal de facto standard or entirely ad hoc; should ...
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Open Source license compatibility checker
Is there a tool available for checking if various combinations of open source licenses are compatible with each other?
I'm planning on building various tools that use an Apache license for ...
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Is it legal / moral to republish oss project of an author that does not respond?
I have found a small oss project (one file) in someone's blog a few months ago. The license is "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic". I sent a mail to the author if I can put this in github but got no ...
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Open source code with no license… can I fork it?
A few years ago somebody created a bunch of really awesome and quite popular shell scripts.
They don't work in the latest version of Mac OS X, because a filepath has changed. All you need to do is ...
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How should I go about re-releasing a GPL-licensed project?
A few months ago we found a library licensed under GPL that fit the bill for what we were looking to do at that time. We included it in our codebase and all was fine. Now, a few frantic months of ...
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Best way to reliably recognize open source licenses?
In many projects these days most of the novel code consists of glue code that helps combine dozens of different libraries, plugins and helpers that are licensed under a variety of open source ...
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Looking for good testing in multithreaded C or C++ open source projects
I have read a lot about the importance of unit testing, and testing in general. In particular I have read about TDD which, in theory, seems like a good way to ensure effective test coverage for a ...
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Internship vs Open Source in terms of experience [closed]
I'm currently a second year undergraduate Computer Science student. I'm having a hard time deciding to either apply for an internship or spend the summer back home, working on some fields I feel I ...
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Using BSD Licensed source code
Someone wrote a .NET library to use the Google Maps API (link to the project). I downloaded the entire repository and there are only source files, no LICENSE.txt, readme, etc. However, I guess ...
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how to license my application [closed]
I want to release a software application developed by me as freeware and after I make considerable profits(from its commercial version), I'll release it as an open source.
So, could someone please ...
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Paid open-source app
The question that bothers me is whether it is possible/feasible/reasonable to expect for an open-source app to sell well on the mobile market?
Should I believe that my users will use my app, rather ...
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C# open-source framework for multithreaded task management
I have an API library for C# that provides flexible multithreaded task management of objects on task bases. The library was developed extensively for a project that was later cancelled by the client. ...
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Open source custom work
Many of the custom projects I take include things that could be useful to the open source community. I'd like them to open Github repos with them :)
Most of them are jQuery plugins. I'm almost always ...
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Is there a way to publish software architectural design for open use and prevent patenting?
I'm not sure I have the correct verbage in my question, so let me explain:
What I mean by "software architectural design":
I have (what I believe) is a unique and useful design concept for an ...
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is it possible for the author to trademark the name of an open-source application? [closed]
I would like to know if the name of an open-source application can be trademarked by the original author and what it means when it comes to distributing it through major linux distros, that is, will ...
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Real life examples of P, NP, NP hard ,NP Complete problems [closed]
I need to know the real life or real time examples of above mentioned problems
thanks!!
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Whose responsibility is a bug fix patch?
A situation that has arisen several times in open source projects goes like this:
I notice a bug in our deployment, and figure out a quick hack patch. (For example, simply commenting out code that ...
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How do you make an open source website and profit?
I'm not asking from a business sense exactly, but for example, both reddit and Twitter are completely open source. It is my understanding that at least the large majority of their profit comes from ...
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Compatibility Test and other testing method to use while building software
I will be adding a feature to the software and have to update or modify some of public API of the present open source software.
What are steps which could be taken to ensure the compatibility of the ...
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Open Source sponsored feature development
I am considering to sponsor a development of some particular features in some Open Source tools. I would like the results of the work to be available publicly, and if possible, to be included in the ...
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Which open source PHP project has the 'perfect' OOP design I can learn from? [closed]
I am a newbie to OOP, and I learn best by example.
You could say this question is similar to Which Scala open source projects should I study to learn best coding practices - but in PHP.
I have ...
