I want to start an open source project, but the rise in hosting sites leaves me a little paralyzed with choice. I know a little about several: I never really liked SourceForge's UI but it still feels like the site I think of when I think "open source project hosting". Google Code Project Hosting looks clean and useful but doesn't seem...
I develop an open source Ruby On Rails project as a part of my job. However priorities at my work shifted and the project is now postponed for about a month. I know that that there are people who would like it to be finished sooner I would want to keep it going and willing to find money to pay for it's furhter development. I would prefe...
Is there a free tool to manage/write test plans? At the moment my firm uses an excel spreadsheet, but it's less than Ideal. I'm not talking about Unit tests but functional testing. If there isn't a Free peice of software available what features should such software have. What needs to be recorded. Becuase I might just build something m...
Why is it that people write free software, such as openoffice, spybot etc? ...
For quite a while, I thought that Free Software was Open Source Software. I've found out that this view is incorrect, and that Open Source Software is not necessarily Free Software. I honestly can't see any differences. What am I missing here? What are the distinguishing traits of both parties? ...
My boss was in the past not really interested in Open-Source. He always was fine, if we developers used a library or framework, that came at no cost. But he was never interested in details. But some customers talked about Open-Source and so he got the idea, that such a thing exists. Recently he surprised us, because he wanted to make a ...
Hi, I have a problem. I need simulate load in my web server, but all the tools that I see are not free (sorry but my English it's very poor). Can anyone recommend me any free tools that simulate load in a web server? ...
I'm looking for some weblog software to use/extend, but all the ones I've looked at so far are terribly written - attempting to work with them is far too effortful and depressing. I'm looking for something that is well architectured and easy to change - modular code, distinct Model-View-Controller layers, sensible data structure, and so...
E-Texteditor recently announced going open-source with their open company model. However after reading through I am not sure if this model is really open. The way I understand is that they open up the source and contributors, depending on how much the contribute get badges (like at stackoverflow) and are compensated accordingly from the...
Does anyone know of a reference that explains the different open-source licenses in easily understandable, non-legalese terms? Specifically I'm looking for information about what it means to me when I'd like to use and redistribute some (open-source) library with my own products, e.g. something like this: a library distributed under l...
I've spent about a day looking through all of these confusing legal looking things, and I hate the obscure language that these lawyers use, frankly. This software is provided "as is". If you actually think about it, that makes no sense whatsoever. If the software is being provided, then it's obviously being provided in one state or anoth...
Lets say that I am writing a program that supports plugins and I write one plugin that has a reference to a assembly(.net) that is licensed under LGPL, must I now make the whole project open source and under LGPL? ...
I'm sorry for the naive question, but I'm a bit clueless about free-software licensing. Is there any problem with using GPL-licensed front-end software (jquery + plugins, for example) on a for-profit subscription-based web application that has a closed-source back-end, so long as you keep your changes to the plugins open? Would such a...
I'm looking for software (preferably a free .Net library) that will accept a url and determine its genre/purpose automatically. E.g. www.cnn.com = news, www.google.com = search engine. I would imagine something like that exists, and functions by either scraping the site and analyzing its content, or by simply comparing it to a master lis...
My mission is to take an existing SWF file, decompile it, change a few things (mostly localization stuff) and then republish it. So I figure to get a SWF decompiler program that will extract the FLA file from the SWF, edit the FLA and then - publish it. As far as I know this is the most commonly used SWF decomplie program. One problem w...
Greetings, I'm looking for a MIME library, which is available under the LGPL. After some googling, I found VMime. After browsing their site some, I came across the Licensing page, which confuses me a bit. Firstly, they offer VMime under the terms of the GPL, which is pretty clear. Secondly, they offer VMime under a "commercial" licens...
I'd been trying to read about Open Source Software (OSS) but I'm still not clear about the scope of commercial use of OSS. Where can I find more details about the commercial use of OSS? Only then can I concentrate on "What License should I use for a new OSS project in .NET" for FOSS. ...
Let's say you have published your work under GPL, but after some time you realized that it would be better to publish it under other, GPL incompatible license? What options do you have? Are you (or your team), as an author, allowed to simply change the license? Or do you need a permission from each contributor, each bug finder? I know ...
Hi, I need few banking calculators to do my calculation for my college assignments. i have found this but i need to know whether these calculators are really reliable. link - http://easycalculation.com/mortgage/mortgage.php. If anyone knows more about mortgage calculator do intimate me. ...
I'm working on an application and I needed an API wrapper for it. I noticed that most of the API calls I needed weren't implemented, so I went ahead with adding them in. There are a few bugs that need fixing which I'm planning to fix as well. My problem is that development of the wrapper is almost non-existant at the moment. A bug subm...