Dear friends,

I am having this doubt for a long time.
Whenever I had to go through the source of particular open source project, first I need to find out the actual site or the developer of the project which/who contributes to open source, then I should download the source from that site.

Is there any single site where I can download the source of any open source tools or open source projects .

For ex: If I need to view the source of tool netstat I should be able to download from a site(could be tgz,tar.bz2...) and understand the code.

All the packages are maintained in debian but only as binary packages.
May be I should look at source packages. Is there anything else available.

Plz don't say sourceforge.net and freshmeat.com - since it does not maintain all the open source tools running in linux platform.

I want to view the source of netstat command but unable to get the source from anywhere.

Regards,
M.Sridhar.

Hi friends,

I found the solution myself.
In debian mirror itself they are maintaining all the source files too(tar.gz).

we can download source of any tool if you can see in synaptic.

Anyway thanx boss's.

Regards,
M.Sridhar.

I am not aware of any "one-stop-shopping" site for source code. My impression is that each maintainer of a package, utility, application, etc. keeps the files available in a location that works for them and their community.

Google found this:
http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-n...urce-code.html (I used "netstat source code" in the search window)

GPL says that the source has to be available, but NOT that it has to be easy to find......

The source code for anything a part of Debian is always available in the Debian repos. This is great even if you don't use Debian, because sometimes the project page for a program goes down or is under construction and thus the source code is not available anywhere, except the repos of distributions. And since Debian has one of the largest repos, it's very likely that the source code will be there for any major FLOSS project/program.

A good example is enca:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/enca/
Find the source code if you can.
If you can't find it, it's right here:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool....9.orig.tar.gz

Regarding netstat, it is part of the net-tools project developed by BerliOS, the most recent source code being in the CVS repository.