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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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benasselstine
1 year 49 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago
license?
The license for this self-proclaimed "open source" project is not listed in their FAQ, and it's not shown on their home page. Their source archive is a 24MB 7zip file. There are 30+ manuals. There's no COPYING file in the root of their svn repository. The boilerplate in a random sampling of source files appears to be GPLv2+. Also, the introduction in one of the manuals I checked stated it is released under the GPL.
Rockbox is free software.
DeadSuperHero
1 year 49 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago
Actually...
According to Wikipedia, Rockbox is licensed under the GPL. Yes, they make the mistake of calling themselves "open source" rather than "Free Software", it happens a lot nowadays.
Still, it's GPL'ed, and it's a fantstic project.
spanky
1 year 45 weeks 2 days 17 min ago
I just really, really hate
projects that don't state their license very clearly. Makes one think there's something shady going on.
Preferably the license should be prominently mentioned on the front page of a project and definitely in COPYING in the tarball.
I can't start to count how many emails I have sent over this issue to various authors over the years.