Questions about software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
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Open Source, Copyright and Trivial Bugfixes
Say a developer has developed a library for their closed-sourced commercial application. Since they want to give back to the open source community, they publish this library under, say, the GPL, but ...
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How do distributed version-control systems deal with fragmentation?
Here is the scenario:
X is the author of a software. X releases v1.0 on an open source license on Github and moves on. People interested in the software fork and improve the software. Now there are ...
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How can a commercially-driven open source project build an open source community?
I'm working on an ambitious, commercially-driven open source project* (it probably falls under Wikipedia's definition of Open Core). I'm an engineer on the project, so I don't have too much sway over ...
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FOSS licensing decision: What to read? What factors to consider? [duplicate]
Which reasoning would you follow to choose one license over another? Which literature would you expect someone to read, if he wants to make a meaningful decision about licensing?
I specifically don't ...
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What is a good place to distribute binaries? [closed]
I know this seems like a dumb question but there are almost no good binary distribution sites out there. I looked at SourceForge but they don't really have a clear policy on what they do with your ...
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3answers
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Assuring Quality and Bug Fix speed in Open Source Python Project
I'm maintaining an open source framework (in Python on *nix platforms if that matters) for the first time in my life. It is pretty much pre-alpha, not much more then a scientific proof of concept, ...
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1answer
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Internship along with Google Summer of Code? [closed]
I am wondering about how much time Google Summer of Code typically takes. I do have an internship lined up for this summer, but GSoC seems like quite an awesome experience. I also really want to get ...
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Strategy for reading and understanding Node.js code
Concretely I am looking at this 2000 line file of what I will pretty arbitrarily call "mediocre" code.
It's not well-commented
variable names and function names seem consistently intelligent
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1answer
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What's the most interesting open source project for you? [closed]
Just out curiosity,I'm looking for open source projects. I want to learn about it by reading its source code -- so,I'm asking here,What's the most interesting(s) open source project(s) for you?
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0answers
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Commercial Opensource Project [duplicate]
Imagen you have a project, e.g. a CMS. This CMS an open source project, because you want to profit of the users creating Plugins/Extensions, making Bugfixes etc.
But since it takes a lot of time, to ...
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3answers
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Does open sourcing your work help you?
Are developers actually likely to receive significant help by open sourcing a work in its unfinished stages, or are open source consumers more likely to want something ready to use?
This is ...
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How should you deal with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
I am the maintainer of a project which has a large non-technical userbase. I've been maintaining it for about 4 years now and adding new features as they've been requested.
I'd like to move on to ...
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1answer
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What should I consider when choosing between taking a MOOC or working on a project?
As background, I've been programming for about 5 years, and feel like I'm somewhat "up to speed" on industry best-practices and techniques (for web development, specifically), as well as software ...
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2answers
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What is the netiquette for forking other people's open source projects? [duplicate]
I started to get more and more engaged in open source development and I was wondering if there are any guidelines on how to properly document and maintain a fork?
For example, let's say you fork a ...
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2answers
139 views
Sell software to the world [closed]
Is it possible, and has it ever been done, to create a kickstart.com project, purely to take money to open source a proprietary software?
Would it be possible to license patent protected ideas to the ...
