Questions tagged [open-source]
QUESTIONS ABOUT LICENSING ARE OFF-TOPIC. You may ask questions about open source licensing on https://opensource.stackexchange.com. This tag is for asking about designing programs that interact with open source software.
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Best practices for minor changes to packages that are no longer maintained?
I'm writing a python package that depends on a relatively old library that breaks in a very specific case: when running a container in read-only mode, a .wh..wh..opq file is added to a directory where ...
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Is it practical to make an exe without it being flagged as false-positive for malware?
I made a small utility as a PowerShell script. It worked fine, but wasn't very practical when getting other people to run it who weren't familiar with PowerShell. I modified it to add a GUI using ...
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Open source projects, SBOMs and security
I was just reading a StackOverflow question here, about extracting the version number from a node package.json file. And the simple
'read in the json and access the property in your build tool'
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Where to keep assets for documentation generation as to not clutter the main repository
I have a large C++ project I'm hoping to release publicly soon (it is currently an internal development at work).
We have a large auto documentation setup which uses doxygen and sphinx, however our ...
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Publish a trivial libraries separately or as a collection
As an individual developer, I often find need to write a trivial (let's say, under 100 SLOC + tests + docs + build system config) library that helps me to write code of some other (large) project in a ...
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Releasing a project for multiple languages and package managers
My friend is building a small open-source project with a few convenience functions. He'd like to release both JS, PHP and Python versions of the package to npm, packagist and pypi. The main part of ...
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How to get code review on hobby project?
In my spare time, I like to develop various small libraries and CLI utilities that solve a real problem I have, but are also likely useful to other people with the same use case. When I say small, I ...
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How can Data security be ensured in an open source software?
In open source projects handling user data in a secure manner can be managed, for example through encryption and password protected functionality. What I'd like to create is a way for the user to ...
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Nightly Builds Test against real database
Is it a good practice to hit actual database for Integrations test(Not prod but pre prod DB) for Jenkins Night builds?
The reason I am asking this is because our DAO uses procedures to perform simple ...
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Software license for paid open-source app on Microsoft Store [closed]
What is the right software license to use in order to be able to sell my application, have it be open-source, and still be able to accept pull requests?
I am developing a productivity/utility ...
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Is it common practice to declare exceptions in a library that won't be thrown or caught anywhere within that library?
I have a very basic library that serves the purpose of collecting some useful but simple pieces of code. Like for example a Percent struct or functions like ToDegrees() and ToRadians(), just to give ...
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How to assure users that an open source web application actually runs the publicized source?
I'll explain my case as an example, but I think the problem applies to other web projects as well:
I have developed a Telegram bot in Python and made its source public. Then, I have deployed the bot ...
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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses? [closed]
MPL v2, GPL v3 and other licenses alike require giving users access to source code.
For desktop applications - does access have to be provided through the user interface (GUI)? Or can it just be ...
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Where can I find requirements specification for Open Source software? [closed]
I can hardly imagine a software project where the things to do are not somehow collected in a formal/informal document, be it a SRS or a simple note. So I was searching for these requirements ...
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How to protect an open-source distributed application consisting of clients and servers from forks made by hackers?
TL;DR: How distributed open-source apps like Scuttlebutt are secured from DoS and hackers who can make custom version of application?
I'm struggle with designing an open-source distributed application ...
