GNU Savannah

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GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. Savannah currently offers CVS, GNU arch, mailing list, web hosting, file hosting, and bug tracking services. Savannah runs Savane, which is based on the same software as that used by VA Software to run their popular SourceForge portal.

Savannah's website is split into two domain names, savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org. The two sites are one and the same, though savannah.gnu.org is referenced for GNU projects and savannah.nongnu.org is for non-GNU (free software) projects. Unlike SourceForge, Savannah's focus is for hosting free software projects and has very strict hosting policies, such as (their view of) correct terminology and no use of nonfree formats (such as Macromedia Flash) to ensure that only free software is hosted. When registering a project, project submitters have to state which free software license the project uses.

In 2004, there was a plan mentioned to move GNU Savannah from the Savane software to GForge, due to a perception that Savane was unmaintained. This was apparently abandoned, as of December 2005 Savannah is still running Savane.

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