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Our Open Source releases
SourceForge (1) has released the following materials under Open Source license:
| What is it? | License | Initial Release | Status | What does it do? |
| jsonchk | Apache License 2.0 | 2009-04-24 | Active | Perl-based JSON validation which provides the location of any validation errors. 2 |
| dotProject patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to dotProject |
| Gallery patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to Gallery |
| Laconica patches | Affero GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to Laconica |
| MantisBT patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to MantisBT |
| Piwik patches | GNU GPLv3 (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to Piwik |
| TaskFreak! patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to TaskFreak! |
| Trac patches | BSD (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to Edgewall Trac |
| WordPress patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to WordPress |
| LimeSurvey patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2008-09-15 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to LimeSurvey |
| MediaWiki patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2008-09-15 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to MediaWiki |
| phpBB patches | GNU GPL (same as original) | 2008-09-15 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to phpBB |
| ViewVC patches | BSD (same as original) | 2009-01-21 | Active | SourceForge.net modifications to ViewVC |
Older releases:
- Our patches to SVN::Notify.
- The Syracuse search platform.
- The adocman DocManager automation tool.
- The mailman-discard Mailman administration automation tool.
- Version 2.5 of the software that powers the SourceForge.net site was released in 2001.
Our license selection
We wanted to pick a license that was simple, easy to understand, permissive, and provided compatibility with the GPL. The Apache License version 2.0 is GPLv3 compatible (as covered by the ASF and the FSF). We've selected the Apache License version 2.0 as our standard license for original software we release effective April, 2009.
In the case of software we've written which is a derivative of existing Open Source software, it is our general practice to license that software under the same license that the original software used. This should help keep licensing requirements, attribution needs, etc. simple.
In those cases where we're producing a derivative, it is our preference to release our patches along side a re-release of the matching original sources. This gives the user a copy of the original code which they can examine along with our changes.
Other Open Source involvement
The SourceForge.net team is a huge fan of Open Source software. In addition to the software we've released through SourceForge.net, our team has been involved with a diverse set of Open Source projects.
Footnotes
1 Some of the software listed here was released under prior names for our company, including VA Software, OSTG, OSDN, or VA Linux Systems.
2 Related to JSON, as found in CPAN.
