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Finding Freeware Listing Sites?
A not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "CNET's download.com has become a 'pay to list' service, so it doesn't make sense to list freeware there, anymore. What are the best alternatives? Also, you cannot post linux software there anymore for any price: 'Note: We are no longer accepting any new submissions for Linux, and we will be discontinuing all coverage of Linux on our download sites shortly.' What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?"
A few that some newbies may not have thought about:
FreshMeat, which will do a lot for your Linux software needs.
SourceForge for GPL software hosting (CVS and bug tracking, even)
For a more general software needs, VersionTracker, which started with Mac software, now lists Mac, OS X, Windows, and Palm software. For anything other than Macintosh listings, though, it tends to be somewhat limited.
Tocows also lists a lot of software. I have not looked through their Linux listings, but the Mac listings are pretty decent.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
Tinyapps has some nice gems for Win32. The collection is not very big though.
www.nonags.com identifies "free" (as in beer) software that has "no nags" (no nag screens or crippled features). they have a good selection of open source software as well as "freely-distributable" (binary only) software.
This paragraph (#6) is intended for text entered in tracker items, mailng lists archives and other posts you, the user, might enter onto SourceForge.net.
(Most sites have similar paragraphs to protect themselves from liability issues)
A project's code on SourceForge.net is different. The OSI license you use to release the code is the license that stands. If we, OSDN, ever decided to fork a project, we would have to follow the same rules and regulations that are governed in the project's OSI license. (no different then anyone else wishing to fork the code)
I hope this clears things up a bit.
Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
pat@sf.net