open-source

Any open source hosting site for abandoned projects?

I have some projects which I have ceased their development a long time ago but still get code access requests for. I'm currently providing zipped packages from my personal web site. I think zipped packages are far from being useful (e.g. can't read code right away, can't provide url's to individual source files, can't fork easily, lifet...

Usage of open source libraries in high governance and risk-averse large organizations (banks, financials etc)

Does anyone have any good stories of these kinds of organizations being open to using open source dependencies (and also tools). Many staff I've encountered have little or no exposure to open source/systems and open source is treated with great suspicion. Some reasons given for this are lack of support and robustness, which is ironic gi...

what is the best free/open source WinForms "progress bar" control?

Hi, what is the best free/open source WinForms "progress bar" control? (i.e. want a better looking control than the default one in VS2008, and one that has a nice continuous bar) PS I'm pretty new to .net so I'm not sure at all if there are any popular control libraries (open source) that are widely used or not... ...

how to specify open id realm in openid4java 0.9.5

my url @ development : http://192.168.0.1:8888/com.company.MyEntryPoint/MyEntrypoint.html my url @ live env : http://www.example.com/com.company.MyEntryPoint/MyEntrypoint.html I need users to authenticate using open id, this is how i want my realm to be: *.company.MyEntryPoint I wrote a simple code to specify realm: AuthRequest authR...

Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available?

Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis? Thanks ...

Example compilers

I'm searching for the source code of a compiler capable of creating Win32 programs from an input program in a programming language (It doesn't matter which, maybe the simpler the better) Yet I can't find anything right for me and huge compilers like GCC make me extremely confused as they have so many features that I don't know where to ...

Is there an Open Source licence matrix?

I am trying to find a simple matrix overview of the various licenses around open source software but can't find anything useful. I would like to know whether software under a certain licence can be used in commercial closed source software, if there has to be the original source code included, if the licence has to be redistirbuted, etc...

Open source licensing and the Red Hat business model

How can licenses be applied to have two parallel versions of software, one freely available and another commercial, like Red Hat has done with it's version of Linux? Also, can snippets of code be freely ported from one to the other or must it be designed separately? ...

Is there an external public archive of Gitorious projects?

A certain open source project is hosted at Gitorious. Suppose that at some future point X they decide to close source / delete their project from Gitorious. Will there exist a public archive of the source code, in something like The Wayback Machine? ...

Is there any Symbian Open-Source project for hosting some Flash SWF or pure HTML Site in it and easily compiling it into .sis?

So what I need is some Open-Source project for symbian which would consist of Customisable web browser and a folder to place my HTML+ images and SWF documents. So I don't have to dive deeply into Symbian Development and just put my files where I need, correct browser style menu and icons and compile into .sis So is there any thing like ...

Is there any C/C++ opensource library for Content Aware Image transformations?

I need it to have at least such features like Content Aware Fill, Content Aware Image Resizing. I need it as normal C/C++ library, usable from code, may be with dependencies on other open source libraris. But with examples of code compilable into stand alone applications! So is there any such library? Is there any C or C++ opensour...

Can i get the absolute path of just moved file to somewhere in native file system from known folder?

I am recently working on a java desktop application which needs to track a path of file which has been recently moved to somewhere in native file system from the known source. For Example : - Let's suppose i have a file A.txt in %TEMP% folder (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\A.txt). Now Operating system moves that file to, suppose my ...

Any Java library for address extraction from emails?

I'm looking for an Java open-source library which is able to extract address information from a (German) email (signature). The library should find name street city, city code/postal code email tel/fax address-parser.com is an commercial product, but a free (albeit simple) library would be great. stackoverflow.com/questions/16413/pa...

How can I get it the Free Music Archive audio player or is there a better alternative?

I'm looking at free streaming audio players for web browsers that I can use in a project. I really like the audio player used on http://freemusicarchive.org/. Are they using an open source audio player and can I get a hold of it? Or is it closed source? Also if there are any open-source audio players that anybody knows about I'd love to...

How does it affect me as a developer/engineer/company that Android is open source

I understand the concept of open source, but I just realized now that I understand it from only one view: when I open source my own code. I don't really understand what benefit I'm getting from receiving the same thing. As a regular developer (like the majority of us here), I did not spend the past 4 years of my life working on "develop...

Using Barcode ID for Event Management

I have a barcode scanner and laptop (ofcourse :)), I'm looking for simple event management app that can process the input from the barcode scanner and keep attendance record for our frequent private meetings. I wonder if there's an open source software available that'd allow me to manage events using code 128 barcode id cards? Many th...

Need to find latitude and longitude of postcodes and store into my database

Hey guys, Ive got a database full of UK Postcodes, now i'd like to be able to store the latitude and longitude of these specific postcodes along with the record with the database. Is there anyway that i can obtain this data free without violating any T&C's? I know i could do this using google maps api for each postcode, but i have wa...

How to give reference lines dicom pic on Dicom pics in CLEARCANVAS?

i will do that if i open my dicom pics.i have a study . if you look below pic you can see study pic left corner. Big pic is one of series. How can i do that clearCanvas open source sdk? ...

Choosing an Open Source Application Server for J2EE

Hello, I know this may be a recurring topic, but I have read a lot of articles and I still have doubts. Also, I would like to hear more recent opinions about this. The main requirements of my application server are: flexible configuration, support for a extremely high number of concurrent users. It will be a system for the mobile comm...

Problem in Building mplsh-run in lshkit

Hi guy, been trying out this for quite some time but I'm still unable to built mplsh-run from lshkit Not sure if this would help to explain my situation during the building process /tmp/cc17kth4.o: In function `lshkit::MultiProbeLshRecallTable::reset(lshkit::MultiProbeLshModel, unsigned int, double, double)': mplsh-run.cpp:(.text._Z...