Coordinates | 55°45′06″N37°37′04″N |
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name | SourceForge |
logo | |
screenshot | |
url | or (redirect) |
commercial | Yes |
type | Collaborative revision control and software development management system |
registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
owner | Geeknet, Inc. |
author | VA Software |
alexa | 154 () |
launch date | November 1999 |
current status | Active |
revenue | }} |
SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers of free / open source software, competing with other providers such as RubyForge, Tigris.org, BountySource, Launchpad, BerliOS, JavaForge, GNU Savannah, Github and Gitorious.
The vast number of users at SourceForge.net (over 2,000,000 as of 2009) exposes prominent projects to a variety of developers, and can create a positive feedback loop. As a project's activity rises, SourceForge.net's internal ranking system makes it more visible to other developers who may join and contribute to it. Given that many open source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into a project.
Developers must agree to grant SourceForge.net a perpetual license before they can host code on its servers. SourceForge.net uses Trove Categorization for its projects.
These restrictions have drawn criticism as being counter to the free software movement, the open source software movement and the principles of making software available to all without discrimination.
SourceForge.net was banned in China around 2002, though the ban was later lifted in 2003.
In 2008, SourceForge.net website was banned again in China for about a month (June 26, 2008 – July 24, 2008). It is probable that the ban was a result of the "Boycott Beijing 2008" banner placed on Notepad++'s SourceForge.net homepage to point out the human rights problem in China.
On January 27, 2011, SourceForge faced another attempt. The attack was mainly against some of the developer infrastructure and resulted in the exploitation of several SourceForge.net servers. SourceForge said, "The attack resulted in an exploit of several SourceForge.net servers, and we have proactively shut down a handful of developer centric services to safeguard data and protect the majority of our services"
According to a SourceForge.net announcement on their blog, as a short term response, they have taken down services such as CVS Hosting, ViewVC (web-based code browsing), New Release upload capability, and Interactive Shell services. The company is silent about the type of attack and from where those attempts were made.
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