Who Voted is Free Software
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To view or enhance the source code that runs the Who Voted website, please see the project's SourceForge Page.
Contributors
The idea for the Who Voted website came from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology.
Google Summer of Code, a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects, provided the means for CPSR to get the project off the ground by providing Who Voted's first student developer, Jeffrey Gerard, in 2007. The project was supervised by Fyodor Vaskovich, Todd Davies, and Annalee Newitz.
The HTML website layout is loosely based on an Open Source Web Design template created by Technology Directory.
License: GPLv3
Who Voted is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Who Voted is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should be able to find a copy of the GNU General Public License
at <http://whovoted.net/COPYING.txt>. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.