Comparison of free software hosting facilities
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A comparison of online hosting facilities which serves free software.
[edit] General software
| Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | TFS | Arch | Git | Bounties | notes | |
| BerliOS | http://www.berlios.de | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Funded by the German government. | |
| BountySource | https://bountysource.com | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Allows monetary bounties on tasks. Custom CMS and SVN browser. | |
| CodePlex | http://www.codeplex.com | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Microsoft's open source project hosting site. | |
| Freepository | http://freepository.com | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Freepository provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts are CVS-based. | |
| Gna.org | http://gna.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Project by the Free Software Foundation France | |
| GNU Savannah | http://savannah.gnu.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Project by the Free Software Foundation | |
| Google Code | http://code.google.com/hosting/ | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | New service from Google as of Aug 04 2006 | |
| Novell Forge | http://forge.novell.com/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| Sarovar | http://sarovar.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| Simple End-User Linux | http://www.seul.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Established May 1997. | |
| SourceForge | http://sourceforge.net/ | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Wiki features are a courtesy of FlexWiki. | |
| Tigris.org | http://www.tigris.org/ | Yes | Perhaps | Yes | No | No | No | No | Restricted to collaborative software development tools | |
| TuxFamily | http://www.tuxfamily.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Notes: 1. Coreutils developers has got git access from Savannah, as most likely would get anyone upon request on savannah-hackers; this service, however, is not officially offered, as of yet. 2. Sarovar supports git indirectly, by providing an rsync service, which is one of the git transports.
[edit] Specific requirements or preferences
| Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Arch | notes |
| Alioth | http://alioth.debian.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Preference for Debian related projects. |
| CakeForge | http://cakeforge.org/ | No | No | Yes | No | Only for CakePHP related projects. |
| Drupal | http://drupal.org/project/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Drupal related projects. |
| GBorg | http://gborg.postgresql.org/ | No | Yes | No | No | Only for PostgreSQL related projects. |
| Gna! | https://gna.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only for free software (GPL-compatible) projects. |
| JabberStudio | http://jabberstudio.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Jabber related projects. |
| JavaForge | http://javaforge.com/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Java related projects. Plugins available for Eclipse (software) and NetBeans |
| JoomlaForge | http://forge.Joomla.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Joomla third party development |
| LuaForge | http://luaforge.net/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Lua related projects |
| mozdev | http://www.mozdev.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Mozilla related projects. |
| pgfoundry | http://www.pgfoundry.org/ | No | Yes | Yes | No | Only for PostgreSQL related projects |
| RubyForge | http://rubyforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Ruby related projects |
| SqueakSource | http://www.squeaksource.com/ | Yes | No | No | No | Only for Squeak related projects |
| SugarForge | http://sugarforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for SugarCRM related projects |
| SEUL.org | http://www.seul.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for projects licensed under a DFSG-compatible license. |
