In July 2015 Dice announced that it planned to sell SourceForge and Slashdot, and in January 2016 the two sites were sold to the San Diego-based BIZX, LLC for an undisclosed amount. In September 2012 SourceForge, Slashdot, and Freecode were acquired from Geeknet by the online job site for $20 million, and incorporated into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media.
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In June 2012 the Allura project was donated to the Apache Software Foundation as Apache Allura. 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. 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. SourceForge has been temporarily banned in China three times: in September 2002, in July 2008 (for about a month) and on Aug(for several days).
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The last release under a free license was made in November 2001 after the dot-com bubble, SourceForge was later powered by the proprietary SourceForge Enterprise Edition, a separate product re-written in Java which was marketed for offshore outsourcing. The software running the SourceForge site was released as free software in January 2000 and was later named SourceForge Alexandria.
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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. On May 17, 2016, they announced that it would scan all projects for malware and display warnings on downloads. The program was canceled by new owners BIZX, LLC on Febru 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. On February 9, 2016, SourceForge announced they had eliminated their DevShare program practice of bundling installers with project downloads. The result has in some cases been the appearance of malware bundled with SourceForge downloads. Since 2013 additional revenue generation schemes, such as bundleware models, have been trialled, with the goal of increasing SourceForge's revenue. 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. In 2009 SourceForge reported a gross quarterly income of US$23 million through media and e-commerce streams. reported quarterly takings of US$6.5 million. SourceForge's traditional revenue model is through advertising banner sales on their site. 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. As a project's activity rises, 's internal ranking system makes it more visible to other developers through SourceForge directory and Enterprise Directory. The vast number of users at (over 3 million as of 2013) exposes prominent projects to a variety of developers and can create a positive feedback loop.
Major features (amongst others) include project wikis, metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database, and unique sub-domain URLs (in the form ). 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. It was the first to offer this service for free to open-source projects. It acts as a centralized location for free and open-source software projects.
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SourceForge is a web-based source code repository.
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. Optional (required for creating and joining projects) Free hosting for open-source software project management
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