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What should every developer know about legal matters?

Today I had a bad surprise learning about some implications of the GPL license, mainly that I couldn't use it as freely as I thought. Now I know. What else should I know, and more widely, what should every developer know about legal things like…
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Is there a “free” alternative to .NET Reflector?

Possible Duplicate: Something Better than .NET Reflector? Possible Duplicate: Open Source Alternatives to Reflector? I don't consider this to be a duplicate, as the contact of the other questions is about learning how reflector works, and this…
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Salt Generation and open source software

As I understand it, the best practice for generating salts is to use some cryptic formula (or even magic constant) stored in your source code. I'm working on a project that we plan on releasing as open source, but the problem is that with the source…
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What's the best open source game to learn from?

This question has been preserved for historical reasons, but it is not considered on-topic, so don't use it as an excuse to post something similar. More info at https://stackoverflow.com/faq. For me to read code and learn, not to…
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What are the Open Source alternatives to WPF/XAML?

If we've learned anything from HTML/CSS it's that, declarative languages (like XML) do a good job of describing User Interfaces because: It's easy to build code preprocessors that can template the code effectively. The code is in a well defined…
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Is there a chart of which OSS License is compatible with which?

I have a fairly good understanding of individual OSS licenses, but I always have trouble when I want to use code under different licenses. BSD vs. Ms-PL, Apache 2 vs. GPLv3 etc. Is there some sort of "mating chart" that lists which licenses are…
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Is Github.com source code open source?

... or the shoemaker's children go barefoot? I would like to fix some styling & have an idea for the feature (and a lot of free time) but I cannot find any github.com page on github.com.
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Continuous Integration for a small .NET open source project

I'm starting a small open source project, myself being the sole contributor for the time. Still, I think a continuous integration setup would be useful to detect whether I broke the build. Is there a free, hosted continuous integration server that…
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GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?

I want to do a case sensitive search for a particular piece of code in a GitHub repository. Is it possible? I checked https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/ and didn't find such a syntax rule.
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Very simple, terse and easy GUI programming “frameworks”

Please list GUI programming libraries, toolkits, frameworks which allow to write GUI apps quickly. I mean in such a way, that GUI is described entirely in a human-readable (and human-writable) plain text file (code) code is terse (1 or 2 lines of…
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Best WPF open source projects

I have programmed with WPF for more than a year. When I started there weren't so many examples and guidelines to follow, now the situation is much more better. I would like to ask you some help in listing the best WPF (open) source code examples or…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of using ReactJS

I am new to using React for development. Can someone list the advantages and disadvantages in using ReactJS. Are there any performance issues with using this library for large projects.
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F# open source projects

I'm looking for some open source F# projects to learn from. Something not snippets but full projects that are good representatives of F# features (i.e. pattern matching, discriminated unions, etc). My objective are mainly to see how all the…
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Open Source Javascript PDF viewer

Is there any open source Javascript based PDF Viewer available? Any guide to developing this kind of script that renders PDF docs would be helpful.
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Any open source Spring sample project that's bigger than PetClinic?

I've finished reading the spring doc and the PetClinic sample project. Just like to see some bigger real world project that's done with Spring. Thanks.
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