SourceForge

SourceForge (English for source forge) is a repository in the form of a website which offers programmers the ability to create and manage open source software projects. It is based on the same software development system and is operated by the U.S. company Dice Holdings.

Software

The software SourceForge is of Dice Holdings (until 2012 Geeknet ) developed and distributed. It provides a portal to a range of services available and integrates a number of open source applications (such as GNU Mailman, Trac ). As for versioning source code ( SCM) CVS, SVN, Bazaar, Git and Mercurial are offered.

Up to version 3 Sourceforge was available as free software, after which it became commercially and proprietary distributed by VA Software. In 2007, VA Software sold the SourceFourge Enterprise Edition on the California CollabNet SourceForge Inc. In addition, a programmer develops the software but also under the name GForge as open source project. Under the name GForge AS once again created a proprietary software called. To avoid the confusion about the name, the free version of the original GForge will continue as FusionForge. The Free Software Foundation presented with Savannah an alternative for proprietary SourceForge software, which is used on GNU Savannah. Savannah is based on version 2 of the SourceForge software.

In June 2012, it was suggested reimplementing the SourceForge software called Allura to pass the Apache project. Since 22 April 2013, lying at SourceForge projects on Allura be migrated.

Portal

Many large open source projects are hosted on SourceForge, but there are also small or inactive projects. The largest projects include, among others, eMule, Vuze and Ares Galaxy, each with several hundred million downloads.

Closures of access to SourceForge

The Chinese government had blocked access to the site in the wake of the Golden Shield project, but the ban was lifted the following year. In June 2008, the portal of China could not be reached again, and it was about relationships with a programmer from SourceForge, which criticized the Chinese government negatively speculates.

Since the U.S. government imposed trade embargoes and sanctions against so-called rogue states for a long time, SourceForge announced in January 2010 the users from those countries that are listed on the sanctions list of the U.S. State Department, excluded from using. In January 2010, page thus in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea and Sudan was not available. Due to some violent reactions of the community and the commitment from SourceForge to the open source principle of free exchange of information SourceForge announced on 7 February 2010 that these countries are not generally excluded from the download of software, but each project administrator, this restriction itself can make for his project.

Criticism

Since August 2013 Source Forge offers so-called drive-by Installer, in addition to the desired software also suggests Adware third party to install during installation. Among the popular programs are, inter alia, the Ask toolbar and the VPN tool Hotspot Shield. These programs are financed by advertising and show you're surfing the Internet permanently banners or collect user data. The use of the drive-by -installer is optional and must be explicitly enabled by the developer (opt -in).

Similar projects

  • BerliOS Developer is another hosting platform for open source projects. BerliOS Developer is operated by the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute.
  • Bitbucket is a Collaboration-/Hosting-Plattform for any project from the company Atlassian, use the version control system Mercurial.
  • Free code provides a catalog for open source projects dar. This is as SourceForge itself, hosted by the Open Source Technology Group, Inc. ( OSTG ) ( a subsidiary of SourceForge, Inc.).
  • Google Code powered by Google Inc. portal.
  • Java Forge is a collaboration portal to the limit of java open source projects ( functioning otherwise as SourceForge ). But allows direct access to IDEs additional plug-ins ( Eclipse and NetBeans )
  • Origo is a system developed at ETH Zurich system on which also closed-source projects are allowed.
  • GNU Savannah is another hosting platform for open - source projects, choose a license that complies with the ideas of the Free Software Foundation.
  • Gna! , On the same software as Savannah and operated based on the Free Software Foundation France.
  • CodePlex, a hosting site from Microsoft for open source projects.
  • RubyForge, another hosting platform, limited to Ruby projects.
  • GitHub, specifically tailored to the Git version control system hosting platform.
  • Launchpad, a hosting platform for open - source projects of the company Canonical, makers of Ubuntu Linux distribution.
  • Tigris.org, CollabNet, the manufacturer of Subversion, powered hosting platform.
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