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June 2008
alsaseq – ALSA sequencer bindings for Python
by Emaux
alsaseq is a Python module that allows to interact with ALSA sequencer clients. It can create an ALSA client, connect to other clients, send and receive ALSA events immediately or at a scheduled time using a sequencer queue. It provides a subset of the ALSA sequencer capabilities in a simplified model. It is implemented in C language and licensed under the Gnu GPL license version 2 or later. Current version is 0.2.1, released on December 5th, 2007.
May 2008
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April 2008
Free ad serving software for web publishers | OpenX
by rike_
OpenX is a hugely popular, free ad server designed by web publishers for web publishers. It provides everything you need to manage your online advertising.
Make more money from online advertising today.
March 2008
February 2008
Apsis Gmbh
by camel
& 1 other
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.
WHAT POUND IS:
1. a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers.
2. a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information.
3. an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end servers.
4. an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones.
5. a fail over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers.
6. a request redirector: requests may be distributed among servers according to the requested URL.
Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.
January 2008
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November 2007
Freebox GPLviolations
by rike_
Harald Welte is the one bringing the issue to the court; he is the writer of iptables contained in the Linux kernel, included in all Freeboxes. He his supported by Rob Landley and Erik Andersen from the BusyBox project, also included in all Freeboxes (see the BusyBox Support Letter).
Réponse de Xavier Niel (Free) à l'attaque de la FSF France - PC INpact
by srcmax
L’intéressé insiste : « Free ne viole en rien la GPL v2. Lorsqu'un produit qui utilise un soft sous GPL est vendu, le vendeur doit fournir les sources du soft GPL. Free ne vend pas la Freebox, elle est la propriété de Free, c'est un élément de terminaison de son réseau, les sources n'ont pas à être fournies. Le débat a maintenant plus de 5 ans, il a été tranché de manière incontestable par de nombreux experts et juristes ».
Trois auteurs de logiciels libres prêts à attaquer Free - LOGICIEL OPERATEUR DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ILIAD
by srcmax
Trois développeurs estiment que l'entreprise utiliserait leurs logiciels libres (« free software » en anglais) sans rien donner en retour à la communauté. L'opérateur ne rediffuserait pas les logiciels open source dont il a modifié le code pour l'adapter aux besoins de sa Freebox, violant ainsi la licence GPL (General Public License). « Devant l'absence de dialogue que nous oppose Iliad, et après avoir épuisé tous les recours à notre disposition, nous sommes maintenant contraints de porter l'affaire devant la justice », explique Xavier Antoviaque, qui représente les développeurs.
Ignite Realtime: Openfire Server
by camel
& 1 other
Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
Semantic MediaWiki - Ontoworld.org
by ogrisel
& 2 others
(via)
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – with semantic technology, thus turning it into a semantic wiki. While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in a database. SMW uses the fact that such data is already contained in many articles: users just need to "mark" the according places so that the system can extract the relevant data without "understanding" the rest of the text. With this information, SMW can help to search, organise, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content.
This wiki (the one you're just using) is usually running on the most recent version of the Semantic MediaWiki extensions, and thus also serves as a demonstration for the system. Semantic MediaWiki is used on many other sites and has also been featured in the press.
