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| URL | http://sourceforge.net/ |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | collaborative revision control and software development management system |
| Registration | optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | SourceForge, Inc. (Formerly VA Software) |
| Created by | VA Software |
| Launched | November 1999 |
| Current status | Active |
SourceForge. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related SourceForge Inc ( formerly VA Software Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and VA Research, is the provider of the SourceForge Development SourceForge Inc ( formerly VA Software Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and VA Research, is the provider of the SourceForge Development net is a source code repository and acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. A source code repository is a place where large amounts of source code are kept either publicly or privately SourceForge. net is operated by Sourceforge, Inc. (formerly VA Software) and runs a version of the SourceForge software, forked from the last open-source version available. SourceForge Inc ( formerly VA Software Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and VA Research, is the provider of the SourceForge Development SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative Revision control and Software development management system In Software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of Source code from one software package and start independent development A large number of open source projects are hosted on the site (it had reached 178,832 projects and 1,861,990 registered users[1] as of 2008, although it does contain many dormant or single-user projects).
SourceForge. net has offered free access to hosting and tools for developers of free software / open source software for several years, and has become well-known within such development communities for these services. Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified Open source software (OSS began as a marketing campaign for Free software.
SourceForge. net competes with other providers such as RubyForge, Tigris.org, BountySource, BerliOS, JavaForge and GNU Savannah. RubyForge is a collaborative software development management system dedicated to projects related Ruby programming language. Tigrisorg is an Open source software development community It hosts Software development services such as Web hosting, Mailing lists BountySource is a collaborative project management service for use by any Open-source software with an OSI -approved license The BerliOS project was founded by FOKUS, a Fraunhofer society institute to coordinate the different interest groups in the field of Open source software JavaForgecom is a free Open source software development community and hosting portal for open source Java projects GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects
The domain sourceforge. net attracted at least 28 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. Competecom is a United States Web traffic analysis service that publishes the approximate number of U [2]
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SourceForge. net allows any project uniquely named in its registry to be sub-domained as http://project-name. sourceforge. net or http://project-name. sf. net. This gives some prominent URL branding to a project and a high activity in it can get the project listed on the main page http://sourceforge.net as a Top Project. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Having a high number of registered members numbering over a million, and often been researched for project information, any participating project can gain fast access to the market of developers and users for a short and efficient adoption rate.
SourceForge. net provides ample storage space for a project to completely house their contents such as a wiki, MySQL database, source code versions managed with CVS or Subversion, and even their own website pages at the subdomain location. A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content using a simplified Markup language. MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system In the field of Software development, the Concurrent Versions System ( CVS) also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, provides a Version Subversion ( SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc
By uploading code to SourceForge. net, you grant SourceForge a perpetual proprietary license. [3]
Temporary ban in mainland China
The entire SourceForge. See also Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China The Golden Shield Project ( sometimes referred to as the Great Firewall of China net website was banned in mainland China around 2002,[4] though the ban was later lifted in 2003. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Banned countries
In its terms of use[5], SourceForge states that its services are not available to users in countries on the sanction list of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (e. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Office of Foreign Assets Control ( OFAC) is an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury under the auspices of the Under Secretary of the g. , Cuba and Iran). The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. As of January 2008, people from those countries can browse SourceForge projects and download from them, but access to the secure server (https://sourceforge. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common net) is not allowed. This means, people coming from those IPs can't login to SourceForge or contribute to the source codes.
See also
References
- ^ SourceForge.net: Welcome to SourceForge.net
- ^ Sourceforge attractes almost 30m visitors yearly
- ^ Terms and Conditions of Use. A comparison of facilities that host Open source development services CodePlex is an Open source (but not only open project hosting Website from Microsoft. SourceForge. net. SourceForge, Inc. (2000-08-15). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne “By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through SourceForge. net, you grant Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, fully sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works from, publish, perform, display, rent, resell and distribute such Content (in whole or part) on SourceForge. net and incorporate Content in other works, in any form, media, or technology developed by Company, though Company is not required to incorporate Feedback into any Company products or services. Company reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through SourceForge. net and use that Content in connection with any service offered by Company. ”
- ^ China says asta la vista to Altavista. vnunet. com (2002-09-06). See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Retrieved on 2007-12-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song.
- ^ SourceForge.net: alexandria » Terms of Use
External links
- SourceForge.net
- "The SourceForge Story", by James Maguire (2007-10-17)
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