


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.
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Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:1)
Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:2, Informative)
Consider if you want to use the snippet in BSD licensed code. Oops, it can't be BSD licensed, becuase BSD allows you to make a closed fork. MIT, Artistic License, and a few other "open source" licenses do allow closed forks.
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 fo
Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:5, Interesting)
If someone emailed me and said they would like to put it in their BSD licensed application, I would grant them a specific permission.
I have a feeling most people that license their stuff under GPL would have similar feelings about small snippets of their GPL code. It can't hurt to ask, not everything has to be a huge political battle, we are all programmers here.
Help on Understanding all the Different Licenses (Score:1)
Re:Help on Understanding all the Different License (Score:2)
Re:Help on Understanding all the Different License (Score:1)
Re:Help on Understanding all the Different License (Score:3, Informative)
The GNU site is a very biased place to go. However it is a good place if you want to know if a license is compatible with the GPL.
I can't think of any places which aren't biased, but opensource.org [opensource.org] lists a whole tonne of them without stating one is better than the other. I suppose they have to be certified as "open source" by the site to be listed there, but it seems more objective to me...
Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:2)
Of course, the GPL snippets will remain under the GPL, so if someone else wants to take your BSD+GPL snippets and release them under the Total Proprietary Dominance License version 32.5, then they'll have to remove the GPL snippets in the code.
Re:Not "Open", but GPLed (Score:3, Informative)
BSD code can get distributed under pretty much any terms, and thus the BSD license wont interfere. The GPL code only requires that the terms of the GPL are fulfilled on the combined work, and as the BSD license doesnt place further restrictions on the combined code, tha
woah (Score:5, Informative)
As for the name, it's open if you can read it. If you are trying to get code for commercial software, check out planet source code [planetsourcecode.com]. I might change the default license in the near future, but it isn't very likely. Submissions can specify their license of choice in their comments.
Email me [mailto] with any suggestions, complaints, burning garbage, or offers of endorsement.
"Code for commercial software" (Score:2, Interesting)
I was quite specific that I prefer to source my own code BSD, MIT, or MPL -- none of which could happen if I used a single snippet from this resource. As I said: the GPL isn't "open" in the sense of most OSS licences; it is "free" in the doublespeak sense of the FSF. It's a licence that makes sense, from a perspective, but is most effective against other open source licences.
Commercial licensors are either going
sure (Score:2)
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!
Re:Makes development slower! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Makes development slower! (Score:1)
best web site for code snippets in java, and it is useful.
Re:Makes development slower! (Score:2)
Just like Slashdot comments.
The key word is 'anyone' - 'everyone' is much more tenable.
It is a good idea, but... (Score:2, Interesting)
Not clear how different from other sites (No troll (Score:2)
snippets, rather than projects (Score:2)
Re:snippets, rather than projects (Score:1)
The FAQ (Score:2, Informative)
It's guidelines: Here [osnippets.org]
Open Snippets->Misc Stuff->Official->Snippet Guidelines
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.
Re:Some critique (Score:1)
Gee, what's this? I dig a little deeper and find out that the site is nothing more than a shill for the products of it's sponsors.
I'll take a sponsor-free site over one whoring itself out any day.
Re: Some critique (Score:1)
What I was trying to convey is that the site does what it does very well! Code snippets are easy to find, articles are generally well thought out and written. And the focus is on the code.
It may be not be for everyone, but almost 1/2 mil
Re: Some critique (Score:1)
I'm sure those 1/2 million members (that seems like an awfully large number to me, but I have no reason to believe it's not true) are finding something of value from the site. I guess I just let my own
Why centered everything? (Score:2)
browser issue? (Score:2)
Email me a screenshot and your browser info. I've specifically altered the site for lynx support; one more mod won't be that big of a deal.