New Site Makes OSS Development Easier 42
An anonymous reader submits "OpenSnippets is a fledgling online community for OSS developers. New members are welcome to submit articles and code of interest, and everyone can view/download the code! It's blog-styled with topics for most popular languages. How useful- I only wish it'd make my coffee..."
Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:5, Insightful)
Great idea, lousy default licence choice.
-a
Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't mind if they called it "GPLedsnippets.com"; I mind that they call it "opensnippets.com". As I've said many times, the GPL works most effectively against open source (e.g., non-GPL/FSF licences) projects, not closed source projects.
I did a little bit of searching on their site and they really haven't done their homework. They say that they accept PD, GPL, or LGPL only -- but those aren't the only licences compatible with the GPL. They could have easily gone through and found the "approved/compatible" licences from the FSF and listed those. Not only that, they don't actually give a place to *specify* the snippet's licence, leaving the assumption of the tagline on the website itself: "GPLed snippets, served daily."
Sorry, but it's not open if it's GPLed. If I can't use it in a less restrictive context, it's not open. It might be what the person wanted -- and I fully support that -- but don't tell me that it's "OpenSnippets.com" when it's really "GPLedSnippets.com".
-austin
Makes development slower! (Score:4, Insightful)
I suspect the reason for this, is that it simply is a too large scope to have "everything useful". Categorizing all this stuff, throwing away the 99% of junk code, it's just too much work for anyone to do. And making it into a blog isn't going to make it work better.
Sure, let the people who want to, have some fun with it. Follow the discussions, read the code posted, learn from it... But don't ever expect to ever find something you actually need there!
gpl stuff (Score:5, Insightful)
If you like my code, the only thing I ask is that you figure out what what it does before using it. If you understand it, you don't have to copy/paste it and can just write your own.
I think that gpl is perfect for this site because the snippets are small, and easy to rewrite. It's perfect for me because in order to rewrite it, you have to understand it, which is why I posted the snippets in the first place- to help people learn.
Good job sheenmaster, but you really gotta get a different handle:)
if you want to check out other projects I've worked on, check out morgajel.com [morgajel.com]
Some critique (Score:3, Insightful)
I won't be returning to the site...I don't want social commentary, I want useful source code and coding techniques, algorythms.
Try www.codeproject.com for a decent site.