open-source

Which software license should I use for a plug-in library?

Hi, I am currently developing a plug-in library that I would like to distribute as open-source, but with the following restrictions: The source code can be modified and used in a closed-source project for free (no license fees) Any modifications made in the private fork do not have to be publicly distributed Original author must be at...

How to open source set of plugins.

(my apologies for the non-specific wording of the question title, and for liberal use of öpen source" when I actually mean "project setup at SourceForge") We have recently open sourced a 3D modeler we'd been selling for a couple of years, with the main goal of keeping the application alive. We setup shop at SourceForge.net, and are now ...

Is there an open source license that allows static linking of a library, but still requires open sourcing of changes to the library?

Specifically a replacement for the LGPL that would allow you to statically link the library, while still preserving the copyleft of the original library code. Edit: It looks like the Sun Public license has the features I want, explicitly allows distribution of unmodified library, but requires providing source code for changes. http:/...

If you are young, will other open source developers take you seriously?

I'm a young (highschool next year) beginner programmer, currently learning Python and starting to do some really small projects, like creating a contact form with and without django and plan to eventually do some bigger ones, like creating a lightweight texteditor (think notepad). I would like to eventually get into helping out with Op...

How to fund an open source project?

As a thesis for my graduation I'm going to start an open source project: My idea is to port a complete set of mathematical libraries to Android, to perform numeric and symbolic operations, in the form of a programmable calculator like matlab or sage. I want to release this project under GPL, because I believe that ideas need to be free...

How to reference 3rd party assemblies in OSS project?

Hi, Good practice is to include into source repository all 3rd party assemblies required by sources to compile. Then reference such assembies from within repository. The problem is, sometimes license of referenced assembly directly prohibits such action, eg: "You can not publish the software for others to copy" - this covers any kind of...

Have any classic NES games been open-sourced?

I just played a game of RBI Baseball in a browser window. That in and of itself strikes me as simply amazing. When I was young, the NES was a magical box, capable of providing hours of enjoyment to young kids throughout the world. Now, decades later, I'm a programmer. And I can appreciate the programming that went into games that were ...

Encouraging Open Source Project Programmers to Be Active Without Sacrificing Code Quality

I have an open source project which I had been actively developing JStock - Free Stock Market Software From programming side point of view, most of the time, is solo work. This worry me. As for long term growth of JStock, is is not healthy. Although I do have a few programmers as team members, they are not actively involve. Most of t...

Xcode iPhone project open source files to distribute

I've written an iPhone application and I'm planning to open source it. I'm concerned about distributing the source and making sure I get only the required files distributed. I'm also concerned that since I've signed my app for distribution on the AppStore that open sourcing the project would possibly expose some part of the singing cer...

C# Opensource NAT and Firewall traversal library?

does any one know any stablele project/lib? I need code examples not theory! ...

What are some of the largest open source software projects with substantial revision and bug tracking history?

For my Honours project at University this year I'm considering doing some research into which code metrics are useful in predicting where defects are likely to exist in code and what metrics map to what kind of defects. What large open source projects exist that have a substantial revision history and also use a bug tracking system? ...

Growable buffer for plain C

I need an open-source (preferably MIT-licensed) light-weight growable buffer implemented in plain C (preferably also compileable as C++). I need API equivalent to following (pseudo-code): void set_allocator(buffer * buf, allocator_Fn fn); void push_bytes(buffer * buf, const char * bytes, size_t len); size_t get_length(buffer * buf); v...

crawl php open source forum?

is there an easy way to crawl open source php forums and put them in categories in my own forum, eg. "windows", "mac" and so on? ...

Scholarships for open-source code?

So I'm attending college in the fall, thus my dad won't be quiet about the scholarship thing. I've wrote two wordpress plugin and a jQuery plugin, so I was wondering if there are any legit scholarships I could enter because of these? Thanks for any advice =D ...

Selecting the correct software licence suited to my needs?

I have a few applications that I will be uploading to CodePlex in the very near future. Anybody is free to look at the source code and use it in their own applications but all I ask is that I am recognised as the original developer of the code and that it cannot be used in any commercial application without my permission. I have looked...

open-source JavaScript onclick tooltip solution required

I've been searching for a long time now for a fairly simple JavaScript based tooltip solution. It needs to be: Open-Source and freely re-distributable, and allows my application to include it which would be distributable via free or commercial license. 'Sticky' i.e when opened it stays visible until the user clicks a little close butto...

UI automation cross-platform (Windows and Mac OS X) open source APIs/frameworks?

Does anyone know of any UI automation cross-platform (Windows and Mac OS X) open source APIs/frameworks available for automating external GUI applications from inside a separate application programmatically? Through searching, I've found a couple commercial cross-platform UI automation products, but obviously they wouldn't allow embeddi...

XPS open source implementation???

Does any know of any C/C++ open source for XPS [XML Print Specification]. I found http://www.ndesk.org/Xps, but it is c# ... Any help will be highly appreciated. ...

Which is the best open source search engine

Which is the best open source search engine ..to process more than 5 billion of datas.. 1) NUtch 2) Solr ...

Any open source software like matlab?

Possible Duplicates: free matlab environment Whats the best MATLAB equivalent? (open source or otherwise free) Please suggest any open source/free software equivalent to Matlab for windows with same syntax which is best and widely used ...