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Would be really handy to have a list of vetted, good quality bsd licenced code bases.

It can be tricky finding reliable reference material. E.g. there's quite a few extremely popular python projects who's code is a bit of a lemon.

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Sounds like there is an idea in the works here - submit code and have the public vet it and decide, ultimately, if it is good and bad. Allow discussions?

That could turn pretty sour quickly though.

I would love to see a web-of-trust style security review for open source code. Certain users would have a higher rank for their thumbs-up if they have a high degree of trust in the network.

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