http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/
Sourceforge has been updating abandoned accounts of major projects and
adding their own advertising. The list of projects affected includes
(copied from the article):
* Most of the Apache Foundation's projects---including Allura, Derby,
Directory Studio, the Apache HTTP server, Hadoop, OpenOffice, Solr,
and Subversion;
* The Mozilla Project's Firefox, Thunderbird, and FireFTP;
* The Evolution and Open-Xchange mail clients;
* The Drupal and WordPress content management systems;
* The Eclipse, Aptana, Komodo, MonoDevelop, and NetBeans integrated
development environments;
* The VLC, Audacious, Banshee.fm, Helix, and Tomahawk media players;
* The Reaver WPS Wi-Fi hacking tool;
* and a host of games, utilities, and other applications.
SA has a repo on Sourceforge here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamassassin/
The latest version is 2.20, last update 2013-04-25. Thus far it appears
to have not been taken over and still serves a plain zip from the
download link.
I recognize some of the listed authors, but I don't think any of them
have been active recently. Does anyone have access to this account so we
can maintain it or shut it down?
