Sourceforge Terms of Use -- Is it ok to license all our codes to Slashdot Media?
7. SourceForge.net Submissions/Content
When you submit, post, upload or otherwise provide Code to SourceForge.net, you must designate promptly the software license pursuant to which licensees, including Slashdot Media, obtain rights with respect to such Code. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms, any Code submitted to SourceForge.net must be licensed to Slashdot Media and other licensees under a license that is: compliant with the Open Source Initiative (“OSI”)’s Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd) or certified as an “OSI-Approved License” (http://opensource.org/licenses). Please note that Slashdot Media is not affiliated with the OSI.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, once you have selected the OSI-Approved or compliant license applicable to your Code, Slashdot Media shall be a licensee of such Code under the applicable OSI-Approved or compliant license that you have chosen. You shall promptly notify us in writing if you do not have the right to grant Slashdot Media or any other user an OSI-Approved or compliant license to your Code. Until such time as you have selected the OSI-Approved or compliant license applicable to your Code, Slashdot Media shall be a licensee of such Code under the license terms applicable to Associated Content.
Reference: https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/
This is so that they can redistribute the code. Yes, it is OK.
They have been adding malware to binary downloads so I wouldn't trust them at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge#Project_hijackings_and_bundled_malware
I agree. Please don't use sourceforge. They're awful.
I agree on this too, don't use sourceforge; https://helb.github.io/goodbye-sourceforge/
(Do ignore the fact that this is a github link, github have some interesting stuff about them too; https://archive.is/eEs2t)
7. SourceForge.net Submissions/Content
When you submit, post, upload or otherwise provide Code to SourceForge.net,
you must designate promptly the software license pursuant to which licensees,
including Slashdot Media, obtain rights with respect to such Code. Except as
otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms, any Code submitted to
SourceForge.net must be licensed to Slashdot Media and other licensees under
a license that is: compliant with the Open Source Initiative (“OSI”)’s
Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd) or certified as
an “OSI-Approved License” (http://opensource.org/licenses). Please note
that Slashdot Media is not affiliated with the OSI.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, once you have
selected the OSI-Approved or compliant license applicable to your Code,
Slashdot Media shall be a licensee of such Code under the applicable
OSI-Approved or compliant license that you have chosen. You shall promptly
notify us in writing if you do not have the right to grant Slashdot Media or
any other user an OSI-Approved or compliant license to your Code. Until such
time as you have selected the OSI-Approved or compliant license applicable to
your Code, Slashdot Media shall be a licensee of such Code under the license
terms applicable to Associated Content.
Reference: https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/
I agree. Please don't use sourceforge. They're awful.
I agree on this too, don't use sourceforge;
https://helb.github.io/goodbye-sourceforge/
(Do ignore the fact that this is a github link, github have some interesting
stuff about them too; https://archive.is/eEs2t)
This is so that they can redistribute the code. Yes, they can.
They have been adding malware to binary downloads so I wouldn't trust them at
all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge#Project_hijackings_and_bundled_malware