hi, i wanted to take a open source program and put my own logos (and perhaps some ads) to distribute it as a nice extra feature to my website visitors. i have the developer-files of the program, but dont know how to start. most files are *.po, *.in or *.m4 extensions. what software should i use? how do find out what programming lenguage was used? (by the way, i have no idea of programming l´s) where are the logo´s and images stored??
Have you checked the license of the software? I don't think you can redistribute an open source software for commercial purposes. And if you don't have programming skills, it's going to be really hard for you to change the logo and add ads.
thanks for the answer! this was just an idea, i did not yet realy choose a program or checked the redistribution details. but most gpl-products you can commercialy distribute. i have here 62 mb of various files at which i took a look with dreamweaver. but thats for sure not the right software to create an exe-file at the end of the modification. so my question is more ... is it very hard and what programming software do you need?
what software can you recommend??? so its not that easy? eg. to have your own logo >> just replace some images in the source code and you are done??
you need a compiler or an assembler to translate your source code to an executable. yes, programming is hard work.