gpsd

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Analyzed about 4 hours ago. based on code collected 1 day ago.

Project Summary

GPSD is a translator and replicator daemon for GPS devices, AIS radios, and other navigational sensors. It understands NMEA and many vendor proprietary protocols, and outputs NMEA or a simple text protocol over TCP to an arbitrary number of clients.

It is designed to speak with GPS devices with zero configuration.

In a Nutshell, gpsd...

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has had 20,780 commits made by 293 contributors
representing 116,698 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 30 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 1998
ending with its most recent commit 5 days ago

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Code Locations:

https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd

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Managers:

esr and ckuethe

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BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

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