What licenses are the best for open sourcing web applications?
What licenses are the best for open sourcing web applications? ...
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Writing open-source software to read proprietary binary files
Consider a proprietary program that produces binary files for storage (e.g. .doc). Let's say a developer wants to write an open source program that reads those binary files. Is there anything to legally forbid him to do so and to distribute that code? My initial guess is: If the user of the open source code also uses the proprietary so...
Forking on Google Code (or any other SVN hosting)
Sites like github, bitbucket provides an excellent/useful feature of "forking" projects. This allows one to simply fork a project and work on their desired features (before submitting it to the projector owner and getting commit access). How is this workflow best achieved for SVN projects (especially the various ones hosted on Google Co...
Open Source VoIP/SIP Objective-C Code
I have been tasked with investigating the feasibility of writing an iPhone App to access our internal VoIP/SIP systems. I've never coded anything close to VoIP before. Are there any open source VoIP/SIP libraries/examples in C or Objective-C? An O/S iPhone App that I can skin and add our required features to (mainly UI related) would b...
Are there any open source implementation of the snakes or watershed segmentation algorithms?
I'm working in a graduation project whose goal is to perform a comparative analysis of segmentation algorithms. I have implemented in C++ a few segmentation algorithms in a undergraduate research project that I have participated (Otsu's method and the EM/MPM algorithm for example). I am planning to compare the algorithms that I have i...
Looking for ETL recommendations
We have a legacy app that needs to be rewritten, and due to its size, we can only do it bit by bit over several years. The idea is to keep developing new features for the new app while still providing access to unimplemented features via the legacy app. We're looking for recommendations for ETL tools that provide a GUI for the actual in...
Alternative to Litmus?
We are currently in a desperate need for some manual test management tool. Currently we are using Excel which is unexciting at the very least. Essentially, litmus is what we need, however it's a pain to install, tailored to Mozilla, buggy and also hasn't been actively developed for a couple of years now. Can you recommend an open-sourc...
Not yet ported Java libraries for .NET
Hi, I often read and feel that .NET Framework has much less libraries to use in project than available in Java world. Even if some ports exists, a lot of them are not at the full speed/active. One example is Apache NFOP. It has not been updated for a while. Another is NHibernate - it is very active but does miss a lot of features that ...
Good opensource django project for learning...
Hi, can anyone please suggest me good open source django project to learn django development. ...
How to search the web for pages containing certain source code?
I wanted to find the origin page of a CSS file that somebody once included in a project I'm working on. Unfortunately, the guy that included it didn't write where from it came and has only a vague memory that 'somebody' sent the source file to him. I wanted to search the web for pages with this css rule #loginNemId .inner { ....
Favourite Open Source Google App Engine apps (Java or Python)
To learn from good examples, what are the best open source Google App Engine applications out there? I don't care if it is Java or Python based. Please one app per answer. Feel free to add a link to the live app (if there is) and to the project page. ...
Good C# open-source projects to participate in?
I'm looking for some large open-source .NET (especially C#) projects to participate in as a developer, I'm interested in both web and desktop applications. I want the project to have a large number of members to get the feeling of working with a team. Thanks for your suggestions. Related: Open source C# projects that have high code...
web based FTP help needed
I am looking for a web based FTP client for our clients that is password protected, they can upload & download files. Each client must have a user/pass to login into their folders. Any reccomendation of open source would be very much appreciated ...
When is mono a good choice over .net?
When is using mono a good choice over using .net for developing a production system? The upfront cost of the tooling is zero, but how does the total cost of development using mono compare to using .net? What is the sweetspot for adopting mono.? ...
Running an Open Source project in .NET C#
We have developed an application in C# .NET WPF Office which we are about to Open Source. I'd be interested in the objective factors that we can address to increase the likelihood of success. It's a domain application on top of the MS stack, so we would be particularly interested in any experience of groups doing this (as opposed to writ...
Does access to OSS promote better code design and programming?
I find myself viewing the source code for OSS projects like Spring, Hibernate, Google Collections, Commons Collections and recently the JDK's concurrent utils (well the entire JDK actually). I find myself learning quite a bit from seeing how such code is written -- without any sense as to whether I'm reading crap or not, but I take it ...
How should I make sure I keep in line with licences and credit helpers?
Hi all. I have been working on a java sim game for some time, and finally ready to open it up online and allow other developers to help me. (Using google code) There are several parts to this question. Firstly, I've used the pathfinding code from the cokeandcode site (which you may or may not know). I contacted the author and he said i...
What is the best approach to reading and understanding the code of a large scale project?
Say you decide to work on Open Source Software and you are faced with a project with millions of lines of source code, what do you do? What are the best methods to tackling this project and getting a good understanding in the shortest possible amount of time. I'm constantly facing new code bases and am curious to find out what approaches...
How to limit the effect of client modifications to production systems
Our shop has developed a few WEB/SMS/DB solution for a dozen client installations. The applications have some real-time performance requirements, and are just good enough to function properly. The problem is that the clients (owners of the production servers) are using the same server/database for customizations that are causing problems...
Does it matter at which point in time an open source license is applied?
The premise is simple: I've written some code, I've made it public. I have not originally attached any license messaging to the code. If I were to apply a license (any license) right this moment, would it have a retroactive effect? Would it cover all of the code that I've written before any license has been applied? ...