OpenInfreno Frequently Asked Questions

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1.0 General Website Information (Updated 26-AUG-05)


  1. Website Copyright Information
  2. Website Contact Information
  3. Project or Website Dead?

1.1 Website Copyright Information

This website is Copyright (C) 2003-2005 By the OpenInfreno Team. All Rights not exercised below are Reserved.

No license is given to copy or distribute any of the content on any page contained on this website without prior written permission from one of the team members, except for content which is licensed under its own license (such as the project source code contained in CVS or available for download.)

License will be given, without needing permission, to mirrors who wish to copy the site verbatium and distribute it to others in lieu of the official site for accessibility purposes, so long as the mirror makes no claim to own the material or the rights to distribute the content in altered format to another party, and so long as the mirror maintains an up-to-date copy of the site (updated in a reasonable amount of time.)

License will also be given, without needing permission, to anyone wishing to derive a website based on the information given, or the method of display of the website so long as the content of the derived website is at least 95% of the deriver's own content or compiled content from other licensed sources.

The intention being that anyone may use any element of design of this website, or may use any of the content from this website without obtaining our permission provided that the used content is less than 5% of the content or design of your website. You'd normally get this anyway under the principle of "Fair Use", but this is true also for commercial use of this website. We don't want you copying our website for your own use or in order to claim that you are somehow associated with our team or project, but we don't have a problem with you using some of the website if you are deriving a website based on some of our content or elements.

Permission can be obtained by contacting openinfreno-team @ lists .dot. sf .dot. net.

1.2 Website Contact Information

This website is maintained by the OpenInfreno Team. You can direct questions and comments to openinfreno-team @ lists .dot. sf .dot. net.

1.3 Project or Website Dead?

This seems to be a common question users of sourceforge.net have for any project hosted online. This may partly be because there are a lot of projects on sourceforge.net which are "dead". However, it also might be because those who use sourceforge.net do not fully understand the bugs (features) which haunt the sourceforge website. Some of the questions we routinely see:

The activity percentile on the page says 0.

This is actually partly a bug and partly misunderstanding on the part of the user. SF.net has a bug which sometimes incorrectly accounts for activity on a project. As a result, our website may say there is 0% activity even when there is a large number of downloads and web traffic. It may also be really high, even though there have been few downloads and web traffic...

It is also attributed to user error, since the user may not realize that activity only accounts for downloads and web traffic, not CVS uploads, CVS downloads, and other activity.

The CVS Repository shows 0 Commits and 0 Adds.

We don't think that has ever worked. Not sure why either as we have more commits per week than most projects on sourceforge. It is a known bug affecting all projects created after a certain date.

There doesn't seem to be any email list traffic.

There is a lot of traffic, just not on public lists. You can always start a trend. Use the public forums or the mailing lists to ask a question or leave a comment (most folks tend to use the developers' personal email addresses to ask questions or leave comments...which we wish would stop... use openinfreno-users @ lists .dot. sf .dot. net.)