Although these programs are for Windows, they are open source, I believe.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lindi
4 years 42 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago
They are not quite "open source"
They are not quite "open source" unfortunately :-( 7-zip uses a proprietary plugin to unpack RAR files and this "FastStone Capture" is "shareware":
"3. Restrictions on Use
This software must not be decompiled, disassembled, reverse engineered or otherwise modified."
kiba
4 years 42 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago
Where do you find this information? When
Where do you find this information?
When I was on Debian, I was allowed to install 7-zip without adding different type of repository.
mattflaschen
4 years 42 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago
Everything in 7-Zip is free, except
Everything in 7-Zip is free, except for the RAR (and maybe this FastStone capture thing). Hence, there is a free version of 7-Zip in Ubuntu universe (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/utils/p7zip-full)
lindi
4 years 42 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago
The 7-zip issue is nowadays acknowledged
The 7-zip issue is nowadays acknowledged even on http://7-zip.org/ frontpage. And as mattflaschen points out distros usually ship 7-zip without the RAR part. This "FastStone Capture" had the copyright info in a text file inside the zip they distribute (I have forgotten the exact name of the text file).