Dev of common IO game is using slapsuits to prevent forks

I, as well as a few others, have made forks of a popular IO game that is licensed under AGPLv3.

The dev has lately started engaging in aggressive legal threats. Not against me and my team, but against more popular forks that threaten his original creation.

I am a student and cannot afford legal bills. We try very hard to follow the license, but we do not have a lawyer and might make a mistake.

Should we be concerned about a slap suit?

https://redd.it/1o83gih
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Open Source : Cloud Security & Finops as an audit tool

Hello Reddit,

I've already shared this project with you guys before, but i'm happy to reshare this because we just hit 300 stars on github.

Since last post on this subreddit, we added a lot of on boarding features for you to try Kexa easily.

First you can check what is Kexa about : https://kexa.io

If interested, star us on the repositoy: kexa-io/Kexa: Kexa's simple rules (Open Source)

If you want a really quick first run, best way is to look in the samples here which allows you to run a scan in one docker command : kexa-io/kexa-samples: all examples docker-compose for kexa

Thank you for reading, and of course i hope to get feedback from you guys :)

We really want to make the on-boarding easy and i'll be interested on your insights

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Made an open source AI which can detect flames and smoke using YOLOv8, any feedback? my first time contributing.
https://github.com/Nocluee100/Fire-and-Smoke-Detection-yolov8-v1

https://redd.it/1o87q7k
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I’m a waiter in Paris — built my first open-source project to accept crypto tips

Hey everyone,

I’m a waiter in Paris 🇫🇷 and this summer, a couple of guests asked if they could tip me in crypto.

That sounded both cool and confusing, so I decided to learn some basic HTML and JS + good AI prompting to make it work.

The result is a small static web app that:

lets waiters enter their wallet + bill amount,
generates a QR for the guest to scan (ETH / BTC),
fetches live prices from Coinbase,
and works entirely client-side (no backend, no accounts).

I’m not a developer at all, just trying to learn by doing — so if anyone here has ideas or advice, I’d love your feedback 🙏 I’d especially like to figure out how to make it accept stablecoins one day (USDC, DAI, etc.), since that would make tips simpler and more stable for everyone.

Repo: github.com/thediningdispatch/bistrotbastards

Thanks in advance — I’m honestly just hyped to share this and learn from the community ⚡

https://redd.it/1o8a9k5
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Open Source as Career Catalyst blog post
https://www.punch-tape.com/blog

https://redd.it/1o8c1dv
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Can't find a good cross-platform free and open-source video/audio downloader app with browser integration that offers a seamless experience like the paid solution: IDM, So I built my own: NeoDLP

NeoDLP is a truly cross-platform, fully free and open-source video/audio downloader desktop app built on top of the popular open-source CLI downloader utility YT-DLP. NeoDLP aims to provide a simple and convenient video downloading experience with Browser Integration (No Setup Hassle, Zero Command Line Knowledge Required - which used to be challenging for yt-dlp beginners, but no more :)

**🌐 Official Website** | **🏠 GitHub Project** (FOSS - MIT License)

💻 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:

🪟 Windows (10 / 11) \[x86\_64 / ARM64\]
🐧 Linux (Debian / Fedora / RHEL / SUSE / Arch Linux base) [x86_64 / ARM64\]
🍎 MacOS (>11) \[x86\_64 / ARM64\]

✨ FEATURES:

🪐 Supported Sites \- Download from Thousands of Sites like YT, FB, IG, X (2.5K+ Supported Sites by YT-DLP)
📽️ Multiple Quality Options \- Download from Quality Presets (up to 8K 60fps HDR) -OR- Combine the Video, Audio stream of your choice.
📦 Multiple Formats \- Download in MP4, WEBM, MKV, MP3 etc.
📂 Playlist Support \- Download from both Video and Playlists.
📝 Embed Subnoscript (CC) \- Embed subnoscript/caption in your preferred language(s).
ℹ️ Embed Metadata \- Embed video info, chapters, thumbnail as cover art, etc.
📢 SponsorBlock \- Remove unwanted video segments with the sponsorblock api
🛜 Network Controls \- Supports proxy, rate limit, etc.
🙌 Adding more cool stuffs day by day...!!

🧩 BROWSER INTEGRATION:

You can integrate NeoDLP with your favourite browser (any Chromium-based / Firefox-based browser). Just install the NeoDLP Extension to get started! (After installing, you can use: Quick Search, Context Menu Action, etc. - directly from the browser)

>⚠️ NOTE: NeoDLP is still on it's early days! So, there could be minor issues and inconsistencies (Always, feel free to report them on GitHub Issues if you found one) I'm working hard to resolve them as fast as possible.

So, what are you waiting for? Give NeoDLP a try! 🤗. Download NeoDLP from our Official Website or GitHub Repo (Releases) to get started! Also, feel free to leave your feedback and suggestions, I would love to hear from you....!! 😊

🤔 Also, if you are concerned about: "Whether NeoDLP is safe to install or not...??" - Well, it absolutely is! But, just for the sake of proof, see the VirusTotal scan reports: Installer (neodlp, neodlp-msghost, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, ffprobe, deno, aria2c, uninstall)

https://redd.it/1o8blkm
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I'm building Reddit, but for tech courses. I will donate 10% of all revenue to open source projects
https://skillcraft.ai/

https://redd.it/1o8etj5
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Hey mate, fancy some open source projects?

If you - like us - want to make the world a better, more democratic place, or just want to polish your programming skills, perhaps want to have some more projects in your CV, we have some cool projects for you.

The currently running projects of the Community Digital Tools Foundation are the following:

Lidehouse is primarily a condominium management tool, based on - you guessed it - the foundations of liquid democracy. Do not be distracted by the fact that it contains every bureocratic tool for the manager of a condominium (yes, billing and stuff), and actively used by for-profit users to do that. It can be used for every kind of discussion and voting for a group. Feel free to bring your friends there and use it for building your community. We wanted to find a use case where good democratic discourse can naturally introduced, and the condominium is just that (and managing condominiums enables its primary dev to eat while focusing on the software). If you have another use in mind, let's discuss, pull requests are welcome! It currently talks English and Hungarian, so a straightforward project would be to translate it to your own language. You can check out the demo at https://demo.honline.hu/demo and you can straight go to https://honline.hu to create your own community's place.
Repo: https://github.com/edemo/Lidehouse
Technology: meteor
Maturity: mature, in serious use

Civitas-ng is a rewrite of civitas, the voting engine which provably provides universal verifiability, voter verifiability, anonymity, and coercion resistance, using state of the art cryptography. The original was written by scientists. The goal of this rewrite to have an actually useable, well maintained and secure voting software for the masses. I guess there is no need to explain why it is important for a voting software to not just be secure, but verifiably so. Therefore we aim at Common Criteria EAL6 (yes, not a typo). The next two projects are just to make it possible. So if you are interested in crypto, secure coding practices, this is where you can meet it IRL in an open source project.
Repo: https://github.com/edemo/civitas-ng
Technology: java, spring, maven
Maturity: the crypto layer is mostly there. far from MVP yet.

Konveyor provides the build framework, basic library, and everything to be able to cover the assurance requirements. Beyond throwing all kind of static analysers and mutation testers at the code, we already have a code generation and a unit test framework. But the main thing is that each desing layers are checked for consistency both internally and with the adjacent layers, including the code itself. And we fully generate the complianceand user documentation from that. For which we need a very well-defined code structure and coding style as well.
Repo: https://github.com/edemo/konveyor
Technology: maven, pmd, spotless, sortpom, pit, xslt
Maturity: well, civitas-ng and inez is building using it, so you can call it MVP f you want. But a lot of work ahead. To have a feeling, look at the preliminary SAR documentation at https://repo.kodekonveyor.com/konveyor.base/0.5.2/SARs/ and count the FIXMEs and TODOs :) The good news is that it is a ground-up rewrite of a project I spent two years on, so the ideas are not just there, but mostly already tested.

Inez is Not Even Zenta. Zenta Es No Tan Archi. If you never heard of Archi, it is a very fine architecture modeler tool, implementing Archimate. Just all existing metamodels - even Archimate - have their limitations, they are not enough for the kind of serious work you need for EAL6. Zenta was a fork of Archi, a proof of concept to show the power of metamodel based architecture modeling. While it - with a ton of xslt - was enough to get EAL4 for two complex business systems, and was an important tool of

the original konveyor project, it never was a mature tool. Inez will be. The main idea is to use some concepts of the Lojban language to model the world.
Repo: https://github.com/edemo/inez
Technology: java, spring, maven, javaFX, antlr
Maturity: the model/language layer starts to get its form. The query processor works. No UI yet whatsoever.

So if you want to work with something mature, and don't mind JavaScript, or you are an end user looking for something to help your community to thrive, try Lidehouse. If you want to participate in some crazy advanced stuff (don't be afraid, there are easy task there as well), aim at the civitas projects.

https://redd.it/1o8jlng
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NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/nordvpn_linux_gui/

https://redd.it/1o8o0n3
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This is what we have been working on for past 6 months

Over 3 billion people spend hours every day on mobile devices yet this platform remains largely untouched by AI automation. Desktop? Solved. Web? Simple. Mobile? Still impossible.

Previous attempts tried to make AI “see” mobile screens like humans do; slow, costly, and prone to breaking on real apps.

We chose a different route: transforming mobile UIs into structured text that large language models understand naturally. The outcome? Accurate, production-ready mobile automation that truly works. So far, we’ve earned 4000+ GitHub stars, raised €2.1M in funding, and were featured as Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

But this is only the beginning. Our recent success on AndroidWorld proves the potential of autonomous mobile agents and there’s still so much more ahead. The mobile automation landscape is evolving fast, and we’re dedicated to pushing its limits.

And remember all this progress was made with our current setup. Imagine what’s possible as we keep refining and expanding Droidrun. Being fully open source, every improvement benefits not just us, but the entire community.


Contribute to our project on github - https://github.com/droidrun/droidrun

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Simple weekly planner for PC with weekly overview showing hours full/empty?

I have been searching around for hours trying to find this. I just want a super simple weekly planner app where i can glance at it and see exactly which hours are full and which are free. I don't want a web-based or cloud-based service. Just a simple app that runs on my PC. Does it really not exist!?



this image provided an example of what I am looking for https://www.smartsheet.com/sites/default/files/2023-02/IC-Weekly-Time-Blocking-Template.png

https://redd.it/1o8vy0a
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After more than a year of inactivity, we officially brought the Reticulum crate back, now maintained and actively developed by Beechat
https://crates.io/crates/reticulum

https://redd.it/1o90rgz
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How do you use Open Source?

Disclosure: I'm an employee at Perforce OpenLogic

Calling all open source professionals 


Perforce OpenLogic, with our partners Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Eclipse Foundation, is seeking insights from OSS users to produce a comprehensive report on open source usage and emerging trends.
The more responses we get, the more accurate and valuable the final report will be for the entire open source community. I appreciate any support you all give.


Take the survey >> **https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7X93W9R**

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Thank you !

Two months ago, I made a post about creating an app to convert YouTube videos and full YouTube playlists to MP3s. It was a small, simple project I built for myself because I was frustrated with all the ads in existing ones and how most of them didn't support full playlist conversions.
The response I got was completely unexpected from helpful suggestions on improvements, to volunteers offering to help redo the app. I’m so grateful to everyone who downloaded it, gave feedback, or offered help. The app version 1.0.0 reached ~1,200 downloads the thought alone that atleast maybe 50 people 😂 out of those downloads has it on their phone and finds it useful makes me so happy, this update is dedicated to all of you. I hope you enjoy it! ❤️
A very special thanks to the contributors :
u/Mrmasseno
u/nelolenelo
u/Benben377
Here's the link to the project : https://github.com/21Errors/YTConverter

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Rhythm - Professional Music Player

Rhythm combines studio-quality audio, intelligent features, and breathtaking Material You design.

Experience gapless playback, synchronized lyrics, advanced equalization, and more in a beautifully crafted interface.

FOSS

Official website: https://rhythmweb.vercel.app/

Github: https://github.com/cromaguy/Rhythm

https://redd.it/1o9ddwv
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I want to make an Aesthetic, Minimalist Platform for Learning Japanese inspired by Monkeytype
https://github.com/lingdojo/kanadojo

https://redd.it/1o9fege
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Esports matches now in your calendar

As an esports fan, I was tired of manually tracking tournament schedules across different games and missing important matches. So I built a free to use API that enables automatic syncing of esports matches to any calendar app.

What makes it cool:
- Universal compatibility: Works with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, iOS, Android - anything that supports iCal feeds
- 50+ supported games: From Rocket League, League of Legends and CS2 to newer noscripts like Deadlock and Marvel Rivals
- Smart filtering: Regex support for teams/competitions (e.g., only RLCS matches, or only matches with your favorite teams)
- Real-time updates: Your calendar automatically refreshes when new matches are scheduled
- Zero setup: Just add a URL to your calendar - no accounts, no API keys, no BS

Tech Stack:
- TypeScript + Node.js + Express
- Axios for web scraping Liquipedia
- Cheerio for HTML parsing
- Generates standard compliant iCal/ICS feeds

It's completely free and self-hostable. I'm running the public instance on my own servers because I believe esports fans shouldn't have to pay for basic calendar integration.

GitHub: github.com/snwfdhmp/liquipedia-cal
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Help with decision on whether to open source a tool

I have built a tool for smart contracts that I am certain is not built for web3 yet. It's a very common tool in Web2. But nowhere to be found in web3. I'm trying to decide if I should open source the tool on GitHub with a license or keep it closed source and use that as a revenue model. I'm afraid that companies will take the code and build their own after they have identified the Gap and build a different tool with the same features. How do I determine if it's a good idea to open source and how should I approach the problem? I would love for the tool to be available to the community. How do I determine if a tool I've built is a good candidate for open source?

Any recommendations or discussion would be greatly appreciated.

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I want to contribute to open source, but I can’t understand the codebase (even though I know the stack)

Every time I try to contribute to an open-source project, I get lost.

I open the repo, look through the folders, and even though I understand the tech stack (React, Node, etc.), I still can’t wrap my head around how everything fits together.

I’ve built my own full-stack apps from scratch, but when it comes to existing projects, it feels impossible to figure out where to start or what’s going on... let alone make a contribution.

How do you guys approach this?

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Convex for OSS

Hi! I have a convex backend that I would like to bring to my OSS repo to become a monorepo. The backend has payment data, our data model, and other logic. Has any done this or have strong recomendations?

https://redd.it/1o9o56f
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