SourceForge is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free and open source software applications (such as PostgreSQL and Subversion). Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... CollabNet is a software and services company. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... Revision control (also known as version control, source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Revision control (also known as version control, source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Free and Open Source Software, also F/OSS or FOSS, is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. ... PostgreSQL is a free software object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), released under a BSD-style license. ... Subversion (SVN) is an open source version control system. ...

While originally itself open source software, SourceForge was commercialized as v2.5 prototype code and eventually relicensed under a proprietary software license as SourceForge Enterprise Edition. The original codebase was forked by the GNU project as Savane. It was also later forked as GForge by one of the SourceForge programmers. Originally sold by VA Software, SourceForge Enterprise Edition was acquired by CollabNet on April 24, 2007.^[1] ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ... GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ... GForge is a Free Software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. ... LNUX stock price (09-Dec-1999 through 09-Dec-2000) VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), formerly VA Linux Systems, is the provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application. ... CollabNet is a software and services company. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (115th in leap years). ...

SourceForge.net is owned and administrated by OSTG, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of VA Software. The Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) describes itself as a news, collaboration and distribution community for IT and Open Source development, implementation and innovation. ...

See also

• GNU Savannah
• LibreSource

GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ... LibreSource is a versatile collaborative platform. ...

References

1. ^ Darryl K. Taft (2007-04-24). CollabNet Acquires SourceForge. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.