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Date:14 Oct 2004 06:35:31 +0100 
Subject:Re: Is sourceforge safe for the openpoplog project? 
From:Brent Fulgham 
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On 2004-10-13 17:51:31 -0700 Aaron Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

I wonder if continuing to rely on sourceforge for the open poplog
project

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/openpoplog.html

is a good idea, if this article is to be believed:

http://fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html

E.g. here's an extract:

Well, it's true that Sourceforge is now DB2-backed (as opposed to MySQL or whatever
it used to use). This is probably more an effort on VA's part to appeal to the
"Enterprise" clients they want to sell Sourceforge to that some nefarious plot to
destroy free software. VA Systems has been a big supporter of Debian for many
years, and there are still many Debian developers employed there full time.


However, there are several fully Free Software alternatives that could be used
to host the project. These are based on GForce, a fork of Souceforge created
prior to the recent unpleasantness:


1. Alioth (Debian's Gforge system):

http://alioth.debian.org

2. GNU Savannah (GForge System):

http://savannah.gnu.org

Either of these sites would be more than happy to host Poplog.

-Brent