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I remember reading about an open source license which did not grant permission to fork.
I don't remember its name and thought it might be easier to ask here than to go through the entire list of OSI's approved licenses. Anyone knows which license I might be talking about?
First thing which comes to my mind is CC-ND: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
I suspect that you're embarking on a doomed quest here, given that item 3 of the OSI definition of an open source license seems to explicitly prohibit a clause that would prevent forking.
By definition Open Source allow fork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_definition
A license that didn't allow forking isn't an Open Source license
Probably the only thing you can do is just use some trickery, like manipulate your trademark policy and the code well enough to effectively prevent a fork.
And as was mentioned, doing this in the license will technically make it no longer free software.
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Is there any resource of how mysql's source code (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server) works?
Any flow diagrams related to code's folders and files.
The official docs includes a section called MySQL Internals. There are sections included about navigating the source tree and what is where.
If you can look past his blatant towing of the company line (e.g. his apparent claims that the "real" MySQL will always be better and more awesome than MariaDB or Percona, because... Oracle!) and that he seems to imply that if you make any change to the source, you have to give those changes to Oracle and should probably send them a bunch of money, too... then there is some good material to be found in a book called Expert MySQL, which includes a decent low-level view of how it works and code snippets walking you through some source code tweaks to add new functionality.
But, there is a large amount of in-line documentation embedded in the code itself.
how "source code works"? it is in sources i guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
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I'm in need of a large repository of open source projects (around 1000 or more, the programming languages don't matter, but a good mix will be nice) for my research work. I thought of downloading projects from Github/SourceForge/Codeplex, but I cannot find the right API's to do it.
Does anyone know whether it is possible to download projects from the aforementioned websites (Like, how Twitter allows us to grab tweets from the public time-line)? Or any other place where I can get a good mix of open source projects?
Pretty much all open source repositories allow remote access via the appropriate source control provider - so the simplest way to download all the projects from Github would be to use git. Even if there's no API for it, all you need to do is find the right URL for each repo, and scraping something like the "explore" page should be easy.
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Is there a decent website or service out there where developers can propose a new idea for an open source project (regardless of language) and have the community vote it up / down, form teams, and do everything that precedes writing the first line of code?
There is the SomeBodyMakeThis reddit. Also, project sites like SourceForge allow you to create a project which is in the "planning" stage. Often, this is used by people who think they have a good idea and want somebody else to make it for them.
Kind of like Kickstarter (for funding), SourceForge (for hosting), or an IdeaStorm (for brainstorming and community feedback)? The Apache Foundation, or the Horde project (for incubating a plethora of related projects)? It really depends on to what your idea relates. Try joining one of the relevant extant open-source communities and sounding off on your idea.
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I remember encountering a commercial software that scanned a project's source code and provided a list of all the different software licenses it used. That is, it would find all the third party code used in a project and give their licenses (Apache, GPL, ...).
Can anyone provide a link to such a program?
Found the one I remembered:
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/protex - Protex by Black Duck.
The key term to use in google, as I learned the hard way, is "Software Compliance Management".
FOSSology is a GPL-licensed tool for analyzing OS licensing. It's main capability is to do pattern matching against uploaded source code and find matching licenses.
I know about a Ruby library called Ohcount.
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My apologies if this is too subjective of a question.
I have a theory about wiki design; specifically, how a particular change to the model embodied by the wiki software would make the wiki revision process more closely resemble the open-source development process and thereby reap benefits that the current wiki model does not.
I would like to develop a proof-of-concept of this modified wiki design by finding an existing wiki package that I can alter. However, it's hard for me to find the optimum balance between the features I need and what my programming skills are actually up to.
I need wiki software that:
is open-source. This is a pretty non-negotiable requirement because otherwise I won't be able to test any modified version under real-world conditions.
implements revisions according to the standard wiki model.
implements security-protected user accounts. The security does not have to be defense-agency-grade, but it does have to take reasonable steps to see that no one can access the abilities available to an account except the owner of that account. (It's great if the software also allows anonymous and/or IP-based editing, but not crucial.)
is as simple and clean in design as possible. It's an extra bonus if it's written in Python or a similarly user-friendly language.
is as fully-featured as possible within the above constraints.
What do you recommend?
MoinMoin seems to meet your requirements (it's in Python, and under GPL; it's pretty feature-rich, including access control as you require).
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