For those who don't know, SF has changed its CVS repository hostname, see below for updated cvs commands. Be advised that the CVS repository contains changes that are not part of the source available from sourceforge site download, or freemeter site download. Anyone interested in contributing to freemeter's codebase should start with the CVS source and not the source zip files from the download locations.
to checkout a copy use the equivalent commands for your client:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@freemeter.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/freemeter login
(enter blank pass)
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@freemeter.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/freemeter co -P FM_CVS
to request commit access to the repository, send a mail to admins of project.