SourceForge

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SourceForge is a collaborative software development management system. SourceForge software is sold by VA Software. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of open source applications (such as PostgreSQL and CVS).

SourceForge.net is a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development, and acts as a source code repository. SourceForge.net is hosted by VA Software and runs a version of the SourceForge software. A large number of open source projects are hosted on the site (it had reached 113,690 projects and 1.25 million registered users by February 2006), although it does contain a lot of dormant or single-user projects.

1 SourceForge software licensing and competitors
2 Banned in mainland China
3 See also
4 External links

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SourceForge software licensing and competitors

In an ironic move, the SourceForge software, which was originally itself open source software was commercialized by a closed-source license. The latest available version of SourceForge, version 2.5 from the CVS repository, was forked as GForge by one of the SourceForge programmers.

SourceForge also competes with other providers such as Bounty Source, Tigris.org, powered by CollabNet, and berlios.de.

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Banned in mainland China

The entire sourceforge.net website was banned in mainland China around 2002. The ban of the projects' host was released in 2003, but the vhost.sourceforge.net was still banned until late 2004 or early 2005. Template:Citation needed

It is reported that Sourceforge was banned again in February 2006, but not in the entire country, yet.

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