11 projects tagged "Public Domain"
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
FCFS RWLock is a first-come first-served readers/writers lock for POSIX threads. FCFS means that the first thread to request control of the lock will gain it, based on the constraints of a readers/writers lock. FCFS RWLock is well documented and commented, so it can easily be used as a reference implementation.
freeglut is intended to be a 100% plug-compatible clone, and is released under the Xfree license. The GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is a widely used library for doing window control, keyboard, and mouse input, and other basic functions for OpenGL programs. However, GLUT is not OpenSourced - although it's source code is available under a somewhat ill-defined set of restrictions. Hence, 'freeglut'.