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Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Post by Roritharr »

anigbrowl wrote: post #11

I don't get all the posts saying it's sad that it didn't take off commercially. No obstacle prevents grateful programmers from enriching the creators of a useful tool, and expanding the audience of likely users increases the probability of that happening. It's a great looking product (that I had not been aware of when it was commercial) and deserves wide adoption.

Most engineers have an easier time getting their company to pay for a 1000$ tool, than donate 1000$ to an open-source project, that's the long and short of it.

Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Post by srikz »

glouwbug wrote: post #9

I've been following sourcetrail since the author did his cppcon talk. It does the job well - I remember loading Wolfenstein 3D into sourcetrail and watching the call graph explode from a single point of MAIN into a massive menorah of calls, all winding back to a circular buffer, and finally a single point of FREE. It was beautiful, and it's bittersweet to see the author go the open source route. I had high hopes for…

Can you provide a link to the talk? I tried searching on mobile and failed. Will try again later today and post it here if I manage to find it.

Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Post by randoramax »

guruz wrote: post #32

A similar product is the Woboq Code Browser for C/C++: https://code.woboq.org/ It's with open source but not free software: https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser/

> It's with open source but not free software

What do you mean?

Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Post by rovr138 »

randoramax wrote: post #35
guruz wrote: post #32

A similar product is the Woboq Code Browser for C/C++: https://code.woboq.org/ It's with open source but not free software: https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser/

> It's with open source but not free software What do you mean?

Open source does not have to be free.

For example, you buy the software and with it you also get the source code.

Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

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Post by abstractbeliefs »

randoramax wrote: post #35
guruz wrote: post #32

A similar product is the Woboq Code Browser for C/C++: https://code.woboq.org/ It's with open source but not free software: https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser/

> It's with open source but not free software What do you mean?

The source is available (open), but there are restrictions in what you can use the source and software for - in this case, no commercial development is explicitly stated. Is this way while it is open and gratis (for some uses), it is not libre.

Additionally, creative commons do not recommend their license for source code and software works because software has specific needs that cc was not developed with in mind.

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