Ukusingathwa kweprojekthi yasimahla I-Sourceware ijoyine iSoftware Freedom Conservancy (SFC), umbutho obonelela ngokhuseleko olusemthethweni lweeprojekthi zasimahla, okhuthaza ukuthotyelwa kwelayisensi yeGPL, kwaye uqokelela imali yenkxaso.
I-SFC ivumela abathathi-nxaxheba ukuba bagxininise kwinkqubo yophuhliso ngelixa bethatha uxanduva lokunyusa imali. I-SFC ikwaba ngumnini wee-asethi zeprojekthi kwaye ikhulula abaphuhlisi kubutyala bomntu xa kukho ukumangalelana. Kwabo benza iminikelo, umbutho we-SFC ikuvumela ukuba ufumane ukutsalwa kwerhafu, kuba iwela kudidi olukhethekileyo lwerhafu. Iiprojekthi eziphuhliswe ngenkxaso ye-SFC ziquka i-Git, i-Wine, i-Samba, i-QEMU, i-OpenWrt, i-CoreBoot, i-Mercurial, i-Boost, i-OpenChange, i-BusyBox, i-Godot, i-Inkscape, i-uCLibc, i-Homebrew kunye nezinye iiprojekthi zasimahla ezimalunga neshumi elinesibini.
Iprojekthi yeSourceware ibisoloko ibonelela ngeqonga leeprojekthi zemithombo evulelekileyo ukusukela ngo-1998. ukubamba kunye neenkonzo ezinxulumene nolawulo loluhlu lweemeyile, ukusingathwa kweGit repository, ukulandelela iibugs (bugzilla), uphononongo lweepatch (patchwork), uvavanyo lokwakha (buildbot), kunye nokusasazwa kokukhululwa. Iziseko zophuhliso zeSourceware zisetyenziselwa ukusasazwa kunye nophuhliso lweeprojekthi ezifana neGCC, Glibc, GDB, Binutils, Cygwin, LVM2, elfutils, bzip2, SystemTap, kunye neValgrind. Ukongezwa kweSourceware kwi-SFC kulindeleke ukuba kutsale abantu abatsha abavolontiya ukuba basebenze ekusingatheni nasekutsaleni imali yokuphucula nokuphuhlisa iziseko zophuhliso zeSourceware.
Ukusebenzisana ne-SFC, i-Sourceware yenze ikomiti elawulayo enabameli abasi-7. Ngokuhambelana nesivumelwano, ukuphepha ukungqubana komdla, ikomiti ayinakuba nabathathi-nxaxheba abangaphezu kwesibini abanxulumene nenkampani okanye umbutho omnye (ngaphambili, igalelo eliphambili kwinkxaso ye-Sourceware yanikezelwa ngabasebenzi be-Red Hat, ekwabonelela ngezixhobo iprojekthi, eyathintela umtsalane wabanye abaxhasi kwaye yabangela iingxabano malunga nokuxhomekeka ngokugqithiseleyo kwenkonzo kwinkampani enye).
umthombo: opennet.ru
