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Internet hosting service>hosting for open-source software project management| registration = Optional (required for creating and joining projects)	Slashdot Media (2019–present)HTTPS://MARKETS.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM/NEWS/STOCKS/SLASHDOT-MEDIA-TO-MERGE-WITH-BIZX-LLC-CREATING-A-MARKET-LEADER-IN-B2B-SOFTWARE-TECHNOLOGY-AND-DATA-1028780285, Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, and Data	access-date=January 12, 2020, BIZX, LLC (2016–2019)WEB ,weblink , BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media , Marketwire , January 28, 2016 , October 15, 2016 , DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016)Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012)| author = VA Software		President (corporate title)>President)WEB ,weblink , BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media , Marketwire , January 28, 2016 , January 10, 2017 , WEB , Abbott , Logan , SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans , February 10, 2016 ,weblink , SourceForge , January 1, 2017 , }}SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects.WEB ,weblink ,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110716044546weblink">weblink , April 12, 2012, The SourceForge Story , July 16, 2011	last = Maguire , October 17, 2007 , {{discuss|notability claim versus source}} Since 2012, the website has run on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free hosting and free access to tools for developers of free and open-source software.{{As of|2020|9}}, the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users.WEB,weblink About, September 19, 2020, Concept SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for free and open-source software projects. It was the first to offer this service for free to open-source projects. Project developers have access to centralized storage and tools for managing projects, though it is best known for providing revision control systems such as CVS, SVN, Bazaar, Git and Mercurial.WEB,weblink Sourceforge.net, Apps.SourceForge.net, April 19, 2012, Major features (amongst others)WEB,weblink Comprehensive Service Directory, Apps.SourceForge.net, October 19, 2012, include project wikis, metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database, and unique sub-domain URLs (in the formweblink vast number of users at SourceForge.net (over three million as of 2013)WEB, United States, October 26, 2011, Sourceforge Attracts Almost 40m Visitors Yearly,weblink April 19, 2012, SiteAnalytics.Compete.com, December 8, 2008,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081208092400weblink">weblink dead, 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 through SourceForge directory and Enterprise Directory.WEB,weblink SourceForge.net, WEB,weblink SourceForge.net, 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. {{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Revenue model SourceForge's traditional revenue model is through advertising banner sales on their site. In 2006 SourceForge Inc. reported quarterly takings of US$6.5 million.WEB,weblink Sourceforge quarterly profit surges as revenue rises, August 13, 2013, May 24, 2007, MarketWatch.com, Software Corp., late Thursday reported third-quarter net earnings of $6.49 million, or 9 cents a share, up from $997,000, or 2 cents a share, during the year-ago period. Pro forma earnings from continuing operations were $2.1 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with $1.2 million, or 2 cents a share, last year. The Fremont, Calif.-based maker of computer servers and storage systems said revenue for the three months ended April 30 rose to $10.3 million from $7.9 million. Analysts, on average, had forecast a per-share profit of 2 cents on revenue of $12 million., Katherine, Hunt, In 2009 SourceForge reported a gross quarterly income of US$23 million through media and e-commerce streams.WEB,weblink SourceForge Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 Financial Results, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150603170625weblink">weblink June 3, 2015, In 2011 a revenue of US$20 million was reported for the combined value of the SourceForge, slashdot and freecode holdings, prior to SourceForge's acquisition.WEB,weblink Dice holdings bytes slashdot, Forbes, Since 2013 additional revenue generation schemes, such as bundleware models,WEB,weblink Today we offer devshare beta, a sustainable way to fund open source software, July 2013, July 6, 2013, October 4, 2013,weblink dead, have been trialled, with the goal of increasing SourceForge's revenue. The result has in some cases been the appearance of malware bundled with SourceForge downloads.NEWS, Schofield, Jack, Are there any trustworthy sources for downloading software?,weblink May 11, 2015, The Guardian, January 29, 2015, On February 9, 2016, SourceForge announced they had eliminated their DevShare program practice of bundling installers with project downloads.WEB,weblink SourceForge pledges to clean up its downloader act, BetaNews, February 11, 2016, April 30, 2016, Negative community reactions to the partnership program led to a review of the program, which was nonetheless opened up to all SourceForge projects on February 7, 2014.WEB ,weblink , Today We Offer DevShare (Beta), A Sustainable Way To Fund Open Source Software , Roberto Galoppini , July 1, 2013 , July 6, 2013 , October 4, 2013 ,weblink , dead , WEB ,weblink , DevShare Relaunch: Power to end-users! , Roberto Galoppini , February 7, 2014 , The program was canceled by new owners BIZX, LLC on February 9, 2016;WEB , Abbott , Logan , SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans , February 10, 2016 ,weblink , SourceForge , February 10, 2016 , On May 17, 2016, they announced that it would scan all projects for malware and display warnings on downloads.WEB , SourceForge now scans all projects for malware and displays warnings on downloads ,weblink , SourceForge , May 17, 2016 , October 15, 2016 , History SourceForge, founded in 1999 by VA Software, was the first provider of a centralized location for free and open-source software developers to control and manage software development and offering this service without charge. The software running the SourceForge site was released as free software in January 2000WEB, SourceForge Code Release,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20000301031158weblink">weblink March 1, 2000, dead, VA Software, January 14, 2000, It's finally here...The Code behind this site is being released under the terms of the GPL., February 11, 2017, WEB, dead,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20010418102945weblink">weblink April 18, 2001, February 11, 2017, SourceForge - Files, Early code releases and was later named SourceForge Alexandria.WEB, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20020302153115weblink">weblink March 2, 2002, February 11, 2017,weblink SourceForge Alexandria, The last release under a free license was made in November 2001;WEB,weblink LWN.net, Restarting free SourceForge development, December 11, 2002, after the dot-com bubble, SourceForge was later powered by the proprietary SourceForge Enterprise Edition, a separate product re-written in JavaWEB,weblink Sourceforge forks, February 11, 2017, Rick Moen, ...around 2002, VA Software decided to junk the entire SourceForge codebase ... as the basis for its proprietary SourceForge Enterprise product, and recode the entire thing from scratch in Java..., WEB, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070310204135weblink">weblinkweblink March 10, 2007, February 11, 2017, Differences Between SourceForge.net® and SourceForge® Enterprise Edition, SourceForge.net was built ... using popular web scripting languages including PHP, Perl and Python and many Open Source tools and components. ... By contrast, SourceForge Enterprise Edition was architected and built from the ground up ... [with a] Platform-independent J2EE architecture, VA Software, VA Software, which was marketed for offshore outsourcing.PRESS RELEASE,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170211075748weblink">weblink February 11, 2017, Business Wire, Business Wire, December 8, 2003, Latest Product from VA Software Provides Better Governance for Offshore Outsourcing, VA Software Corporation (Nasdaq:LNUX), provider of SourceForge Enterprise Edition ... today announced the release of a product designed to address key challenges related to offshore application development. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.5..., SourceForge has been temporarily banned in China three times: in September 2002,WEB,weblink China Says Asta la Vista to Altavista, VNUNet.com, September 6, 2002, December 4, 2007, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081011203709weblink">weblink October 11, 2008, in July 2008 (for about a month)SourceForge Unblocked in China. Moonlight Blog. July 24, 2008.WEB,weblink Gamedev.net, GameDev.net, April 14, 2012, April 19, 2012, and on August 6, 2012 (for several days).In November 2008, SourceForge was sued by the French collection society Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) for hosting downloads of the file sharing application Shareaza.WEB,weblink Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge, TorrentFreak.com, April 19, 2012, In 2009 SourceForge announced a new site platform known as Allura, which would be an extensible, open source platform licensed under the Apache License, utilizing components such as Python and MongoDB, and offering REST APIs.WEB, An Open Forge,weblink SourceForge, March 11, 2011, February 4, 2016, In June 2012 the Allura project was donated to the Apache Software Foundation as Apache Allura.WEB, Proffitt, Brian,weblink SourceForge back-end code to be donated to Apache, ITworld, June 18, 2012, October 19, 2012, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131006221325weblink">weblink October 6, 2013, SourceForge submits Allura to Apache's Incubator, H-Online.com, June 19, 2012, October 19, 2012, In September 2012 SourceForge, Slashdot, and Freecode were acquired from Geeknet by the online job site Dice.com for $20 million, and incorporated into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media.WEB,weblink DHI Group Inc. - Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires Online Media Business from Geeknet, Inc., April 30, 2016, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131208023450weblink">weblink Dice Holdings acquires Slashdot and SourceForge, September 19, 2012, December 8, 2013, April 30, 2016, In July 2015 Dice announced that it planned to sell SourceForge and Slashdot,WEB , DHI Group plans to sell off Slashdot and SourceForge ,weblink , Ars Technica , July 28, 2015 , February 4, 2016 , and in January 2016 the two sites were sold to the San Diego-based BIZX, LLC for an undisclosed amount.WEB , Slashdot Media Acquired by BIZX for Undisclosed Price ,weblink , San Diego Business Journal , January 28, 2016 , February 4, 2016 , In December 2019, BIZX rebranded as Slashdot Media.WEB,weblink Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, and Data	access-date=January 12, 2020, On September 26, 2012, it was reported that attackers had compromised a SourceForge mirror, and modified a download of phpMyAdmin to add security exploits.WEB,weblink Compromised SourceForge mirror distributes backdoored phpMyAdmin package, Lucian Constantin, September 26, 2012, ITWorld.com, January 23, 2013, Adware controversy In July 2013, SourceForge announced that it would provide project owners with an optional feature called DevShare, which places closed-source ad-supported content into the binary installers and gives the project part of the ad revenue.(SourceForge:blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-sustainable-way-to-fund-open-source-software/|Today We Offer DevShare (Beta), A Sustainable Way To Fund Open Source Software | SourceForge Community Blog). Sourceforge.net (July 1, 2013). Retrieved on 2013-09-18. Opinions of this new feature varied; some complained about users not being as aware of what they are getting or being able to trust the downloaded content, whereas others saw it as a reasonably harmless option that keeps individual projects and users in control.NEWS, Nathan Willis, August 21, 2013, SourceForge offering "side-loading" installers, LWN.net,weblink September 18, 2013, In November 2013, GIMP, a free image manipulation program, removed its download from SourceForge, citing misleading download buttons that potentially confuse customers as well as SourceForge's own Windows installer, which bundles potentially unwanted programs with GIMP. In a statement, GIMP called SourceForge a "once useful and trustworthy place to develop and host FLOSS applications" that now faces "a problem with the ads they allow on their sites".NEWS, Sharwood, Simon, GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer,weblink November 21, 2013, The Register, November 8, 2013, WEB,weblink GIMP Project's Official Statement on SourceForge's Actions, GIMP.org, May 27, 2015, November 23, 2015, WEB,weblink SourceForge, What the...?, GIMP.org, May 27, 2015, November 23, 2015, In response to the DevShare adware, many users and projects migrated to GitHub, other software hosting facilities, or self-hosting.WEB ,weblink , What Black Duck Can Tell Us About GitHub, Language Fragmentation and More , O'Grady , Stephen, June 2, 2011 , RedMonk – tecosystems , WEB ,weblink , The Long Death of Project Hosting Sites , Binstock , Andrew , December 9, 2014 , Dr. Dobb's , In May 2015, SourceForge took control of pages for five projects that had migrated to other hosting sites and replaced the project downloads with adware-laden downloads, including GIMP.WEB, SourceForge grabs GIMP for Windows' account, wraps installer in bundle-pushing adware [Updated], May 27, 2015,weblink May 30, 2015, This came despite SourceForge's commitment in November 2013 to never bundle adware with project downloads without developers' consent.WEB,weblinkweblink GIMP-Win project wasn't hijacked, just abandoned, May 27, 2015, May 29, 2015, April 30, 2016, WEB,weblink Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account, June 3, 2015, Seclists.org, On June 1, 2015, SourceForge claimed that they had stopped coupling "third party offers" with unmaintained SourceForge projects.WEB,weblink Third party offers will be presented with Opt-In projects only, June 2015, April 30, 2016, Since this announcement was made, a number of other developers have reported that their SourceForge projects had been taken over by SourceForge staff accounts (but have not had binaries edited), including nmapWEB,weblink Black "mirror": SourceForge has now seized Nmap audit tool project, Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, June 4, 2015, and VLC media player.WEB,weblink What happened to Sourceforge?, April 30, 2016, On June 18, 2015, SourceForge announced that SourceForge-maintained mirrored projects were removed and anticipated the formation of a Community Panel to review their mirroring practices.WEB,weblink Project mirroring policies will be revisited with our Community Panel, existing mirrors removed, June 18, 2015, April 30, 2016, No such Community Panel ever materialized, but SourceForge discontinued DevShare and the bundling of installers after SourceForge was sold to BizX in early 2016.WEB,weblink New SourceForge owners kill contentious DevShare bloatware program	date=February 12, 2016, WEB , SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans ,weblink , SourceForge.net , February 9, 2016 , October 15, 2016 , WEB , New SourceForge owners kill contentious DevShare bloatware program ,weblink , PCWorld , February 12, 2016 , October 15, 2016 , On May 17, 2016, SourceForge announced that they were now scanning all projects for malware and displaying warnings on projects detected to have malware.WEB , SourceForge now scans all projects for malware and displays warnings on downloads ,weblink , SourceForge.net , May 17, 2016 , October 15, 2016 , Project of the Month Since 2002, SourceForge has featured a pair of Projects of the Month, one chosen by its community and the other by its staff, but these have not been updated since December 2020.WEB,weblink Projects of the Month, Team, Community, SourceForge, live,weblink 31 December 2020, {|class="wikitable"| 2020	HP Linux Imaging and Printing, SuperiorOS, ExpressLuke GSI, mpv player, CudaText, OpenFOAM, Q4OS, GO Contact Sync Mod, Clonezilla, BlissRoms, Jamulus, Skim (software)>Skim, Money Manager Ex, gnuplot, Pidgin (software)	, JSToolNpp, Dolibarr>Dolibarr ERP-CRM, Freeplane
gretl, LibreCAD, FlightGear, ReactOS, Lazarus (IDE)>Lazarus, Outlook CalDav Synchronizer, Asuswrt-Merlin, ProjectLibre, digiCamControl, Double Commander, MiRoom, SCons, Peace Equalizer, PlantUML, Evolution X, GNU Octave#Packages	, Tcl, vtenext, AppServ, Logitech Media Server>LMS plugins, x64dbg, Net-SNMP, XigmaNAS, MX Linux
SQuirreL SQL Client, Hibernate (framework)>Hibernate, iDempiere, Xtreme Download Manager, Linux Lite, Zabbix, GnuCash, Eclipse Tomcat Plugin, , Firebird (database server)	, Akaunting, CosmicOS, Free Manga Downloader, DotOS 2.x - O, Avidemux, Clonezilla, Ext2 Filesystems Utilities, Scribus, FreeType, Universal Media Server, Ditto, SystemRescue>SystemRescueCD, Free Pascal Compiler, Bluestar Linux
Bodhi Linux, AntiX>antiX-Linux, Maxima (software)	, DC++, NAS4Free, Outlook CalDav Synchronizer, Liferay Portal, Bulk Crap Uninstaller, Free Pascal Compiler, SMPlayer, ShanaEncoder, fldigi, FreeType, winPenPack, Lazarus (IDE)>Lazarus IDE, IssabelPBX, FlightGear, gnuplot, x64dbg, Octave-Forge, Pandora FMS, Manjaro Linux, MPC-BE
Double Commander, ProjectLibre, SMPlayer, WinPython, SparkyLinux>Sparkylinux, SharpDevelop, Wine, ArchBang, Libjpeg-turbo, Pandora FMS, MovistarTV Kodi addon, MediaPortal, iDempiere, LibreCAD, Eclipse Tomcat Plugin, FreeDOS, GnuCash, Nagios Core, SQuirreL SQL Client, Freeplane, TYPO3, ReactOS, Tcl
Simutrans, GnuCash, ClamAV, ScummVM, Octave-Forge, TortoiseSVN, JasperReports Server, NAS4Free, gnuplot, PSeInt, TeXstudio, , Maxima (software)>Maxima, FlightGear, rEFInd, FreeType
SCons, MPC-HC, PortableApps, OpenMediaVault, VASSAL Engine, eXo Platform, Freeplane, Cmdbuild, ApexDC, Free Pascal Compiler, Universal Media Server, Clover EFI bootloader, Minsky (economic simulator)>Minsky
Rigs of Rods, ProjectLibre, PeaZip, XOOPS, Liferay>Liferay Portal, 0 A.D. (video game)	, Luminance HDR, Elastix, Scribus, Boost (C++ libraries)>Boost, HyperSQL
GCompris, iTALC, Moodle, Tux Paint, OpenPetra, odt2braille, NonVisual Desktop Access>NVDA, eGuideDog, CiviCRM
Snort (software)>Snort, Gutenprint, jEdit, Ghostscript, Wireshark, Scintilla (editing component)	, OpenNMS, LAME, Mantis Bug Tracker>Mantis, Arianne, Notepad++, Clonezilla
OpenGTS, Mumble (software)>Mumble, Sweet Home 3D, GNU Health	, eyeOS, Piwik, Silex website builder>Silex, DOSBox, dotProject, Frets on Fire, ZK, TinyMCE
Firebird (database server)>Firebird, Barcode4J, Openbravo, Inkscape, Scorched 3D, Art of Illusion, FreeCol, FreeNAS
Rosegarden, Pentaho, Linux NTFS file system support, openQRM, Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System>Sahana disaster management system, Stellarium, Filesystem in Userspace, CMU Sphinx, FreeMind, Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
CKEditor>FCKeditor, NHibernate, MediaWiki, MinGW, Gourmet, JasperReports, Nagios, Robosapien Dance Machine, Net-SNMP, OGRE, ClamWin, RSSOwl
TortoiseCVS, PearPC, SugarCRM, Vuze>Azureus, Bochs, Audacity (audio editor)	, AWStats, eGroupWare, BZFlag, GNU Mailman>Mailman, Compiere, phpBB
PhpGedView, FileZilla, Gallery Project>Gallery, TightVNC, Boa Constructor, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	, MegaMek, POPFile, JBoss (company)>JBoss, TUTOS, Crystal Space, SquirrelMail
phpMyAdmin, Fink (software)>Fink, Gaim

Usage

(File:SF.net Diagramm.png|thumb|upright=1.4|Number of hosted projects, 2000–2010{{update inline|date=May 2015}}){{As of|2013|05}}, the SourceForge repository hosted more than 300,000 projects and had more than 3 million registered users,WEB,weblink What is SourceForge.net?, May 28, 2013, although not all were active. The domain sourceforge.net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete.com survey.

Country restrictions

File:SourceForge.net - Download Forbidden.png|thumb|An error message seen by someone attempting to access SourceForge from Iran, an ITARITARIn its terms of use,WEB,weblink terms of use, Slashdot Media, July 28, 2013, 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 (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria). Since 2008 the secure server used for making contributions to the site has blocked access from those countries. In January 2010, the site had blocked all access from those countries, including downloads. Any IP address that appeared to belong to one of those countries could not use the site.WEB,weblink Sourceforge blog clarification for denial of access, SourceForge.net, January 25, 2010, April 19, 2012, By the following month, SourceForge relaxed the restrictions so that individual projects could indicate whether or not SourceForge should block their software from download to those countries.WEB,weblink Some good news: SourceForge removes blanket blocking, SourceForge.net, February 8, 2010, February 7, 2014, This, however, had been reversed by November 2020 for North Korea and other countries.WEB,weblink Downloads in North Korea and other countries, SourceForge.net, April 13, 2021, Crimea has been blocked since February 1, 2015.WEB,weblink SourceForge заблокировал скачивание файлов для крымских ip-адресов, WEB,weblink SourceForge заблокировал скачивание файлов для крымских ip-адресов, WEB,weblink SourceForge.net заблокирован на территории Крыма, {{better source needed|date=February 2015}}

See also

• Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

References

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External links

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• {{Official website}}
• "The SourceForge Story", by James Maguire (2007-10-17)

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