[Plplot-devel] "It may be time to pull your projects from SourceForge"

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

I crossed with this:


More recently, due to the increasing reliance on SourceForge to organize=20
FreeSoftware projects, SourceForge has growing power over what it may or =
may=20
not allow. Forking from SourceForge remains difficult, as things like the=
 bug=20
tracking database don't extract so easily. If SourceForge just shut down,=
 or=20
locked out non-paying users, many would be left stranded. See=20
Advogato:article/378.html. The RightToFork is technically hindered, as is=
 the=20
lesson by CodeAndOtherLawsOfCyberspace.

This is one of the reasons the Savannah project was started at=20
http://savannah.gnu.org/. With SourceForge moving to proprietary software=
, it=20
gets increasingly difficult to fork from SourceForge. In order to prevent=
=20
dependencies on a single company, certain parties such as the FSF Europe =
have=20
started to spread the word: It may be time to pull your projects from=20
SourceForge and move elsewhere. Savannah is based on SourceForge code and=
 the=20
maintainers are trying to package the Savannah software as a Debian=20
package... Thus, they are trying to build the RightToFork right into the=20
software.=20

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?RightToFork

Joao