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And rightly so. CVS itself is free software, and its non-restrictive modus operandi and support for networked operation—which allow dozens of geographically dispersed programmers to share their work—fits the collaborative nature of the open-source world very well. CVS and its semi-chaotic development model have become cornerstones of open ...
CVSNT is a version control system compatible with and originally based on Concurrent Versions System (CVS), but whereas that was popular in the open-source world, CVSNT included features designed for developers working on commercial software including support for Windows, Active Directory authentication, reserved branches/locking, per-file access control lists and Unicode filenames.
CollabNet founded the Subversion project in 2000 as an effort to write an open-source version-control system which operated much like CVS but which fixed the bugs and supplied some features missing in CVS. [3] By 2001, Subversion had advanced sufficiently to host its own source code, [3] and in February 2004, version 1.0 was released. [4]
ClearCase [proprietary, client-server] – MSSCCI compliant (Source Control Plug-in API) configuration management system by IBM Rational Software; Concurrent Versions System (CVS) [open, client-server] – originally built on RCS, licensed under the GPL. CVSNT – cross-platform port of CVS that allows case insensitive file names among other ...
This is a list of free and open-source software packages (), computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]
CVS is based on a pure centralistic organizational model and offers very little offline support. Almost all version control operations require direct access to the repository. Therefore, worldwide distributed software development efforts face heavy performance problems when using CVS.
TortoiseCVS is a CVS client for Microsoft Windows released under the GNU General Public License.Unlike most CVS tools, it includes itself in Windows' shell by adding entries in the contextual menu of the file explorer, therefore it does not run in its own window.
LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor and desktop publishing component of the LibreOffice software package and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect with many similar features, and file format compatibility. [3] [4]