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What is Unmaintained Free Software?

Unmaintained Free Software is an Index of orphaned or unmaintained Free Software related projects, i.e. projects that aren't developed any longer and have no maintainer.

The projects listed here should be under a Free Software license (e.g. GPL, LGPL, BSD, Artistic-License), but other "free-ish" licenses are allowed, too.

Goals

Some goals of this site are:

Draw attention to unmaintained projects and thus help find new maintainers, developers or contributors for them.
Index all unmaintained Free Software related content and provide a central place where you can find such projects.
Prevent unnecessary code forks and duplicated work, just because the developer(s) who want to fork didn't know that the project was unmaintained and they could as well have continued maintaining the original project.
Allow creation of statistics, e.g. about the reasons why projects become unmaintained, how long they stay unmaintained, what sort of software is more likely to become unmaintained etc...

What will be indexed

Generally speaking: All unmaintained or orphaned Free Software related content of any type.

Examples:

Software
- Sources
- Patches
- Binary packages(rpm, deb etc.)
Documentation
- HOWTOs
- Man-/info-pages
- FAQs
- Translations
- Tutorials
Lists
- Bug-Lists
- Wish-lists
- TODO-lists
Websites
Mailing-lists

About this site

I wrote the first version of the Unmaintained Free Software site in 1999 in pure HTML with vim. The site was called Unmaintained Linux back then.

As of April 2000 the site uses PHP for the Web presentation and MySQL as the database backend.

As of January 2001 the site is also available from unmaintained-free-software.org . I tried to write a clear, structured and standards-conforming HTML 4.01. There are very few graphics, no javascript, no java, no frames and no GIFs on this site. This site can be viewed with any browser, be it a graphical browser or a text-based browser.

This site is driven by unmaintained 0.6.7.

Unmaintained Free Software is hosted on .

Syndication

The directory unmaintained-free-software.org/backend/ contains some files which can be used for syndication with other sites:

unmaintained.xml contains an RSS file which can be used for syndication with other sites.
Please do not fetch it more often than once every 30 minutes.
dbdump.sql contains a dump of the whole Unmaintained Free Software database.

If you want to link to Unmaintained Free Software, you can use this small image: .

Legal Stuff

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
All other trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners.

This site is (C) Copyright 1999-2002 Uwe Hermann.
Announces and comments are owned by the poster.

The software behind this site is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) .

Contact

If you want to contact the maintainer of Unmaintained Free Software please write to .

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last modified: May 24, 2004

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