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Is it possible to attribute software projects to a country/nation, when obviously for most projects, contributors are spread over the world?

For the purpose of this map, we will attribute projects to countries in two cases:

  1. There is a legal entity that is in charge of the development and management. In that case, the legal entity (foundation, or similar) has a physical location.
  2. There is a clear project leader.

List of proposals:

Austria:

Belgium:

Bulgaria:

Cyprus:

## Czech Republic:

Denmark:

Estonia:

Finland:

  • Linux? - Linus Torvalds started the projet in Finland.

France:

  • VLC - VideoLAN is an organization based in France. The project was started by students at the École Centrale Paris. GNU GPL (VLC engine moving to LGPL). http://www.videolan.org/legal.html
  • Ekiga - "Ekiga was initially written by Damien Sandras in order to graduate from the Université catholique de Louvain. It is currently developed by a community-based team led by Sandras." GNU GPL.
  • SPIP - Main devs: ARNO* (Arnaud Martin), Antoine (Antoine Pitrou) and Fil (Philippe Rivière) (according to Wikipedia). GNU GPL
  • BlueGriffon - project leader is Daniel Glazman. tri-license MPL/GPL/LGPL.

Germany:

Greece:

Hungary:

  • MPlayer - GNU GPL. "Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux (...) Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from Hungary, but now located worldwide." (wikipedia) - http://mplayerhq.hu/

Ireland:

Italy:

  • Arduino
  • MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) - Nicola Salmoria is main dev. MAME license (maybe not really OSS because of the non-commercial clause)

Latvia:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

  • mtools : Alain Knaff - GNU GPL (suggested by @hack_lu )

Malta:

Netherlands

  • Blender: GNU GPL. Stichting Blender Foundation http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/ "was developed as an in-house application by the Dutch animation studio Neo Geo and Not a Number Technologies (NaN). (...) Today, Blender is free, open-source software and is, apart from the two half-time employees and the two full-time employees of the Blender Institute, developed by the community."

Poland:

Romania:

Slovakia:

Slovenia:

Spain:

Sweden:

Switzerland

United Kingdom:

BTW, where are those projects "based", who is managing them?

  • GIMP - ??? - began in 1995 as a semester-long project at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • digiKam
  • Inkscape - ???
  • Scribus - ???
  • MyPaint - ???
  • Audacity - started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University (USA).
  • Cinelerra - ???
  • Kdenlive - ???
  • Amarok - ???
  • Totem - ???
  • GStreamer - ???
  • AbiWord
  • gedit
  • Konqueror
  • LyX - founder is German
  • Pidgin - "The program was originally written by Mark Spencer, an Auburn University sophomore, as an emulation of AOL's IM program AOL Instant Messenger on Linux using the GTK+ toolkit"
  • JACK - main programmer Paul Davis is British, based in the US since 1989.
  • Csound - "Csound was originally written at MIT by Barry Vercoe, based on his earlier system called Music 11, which in its turn followed the MUSIC-N model initiated by Max Mathews at the Bell Labs. Its development continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s, led by John ffitch at the University of Bath."

Credits & Thanks

Help in completing this list was provided by: Dimitris Andreadis (@dandreadis), ...