Wow. Really living up to the forging of Source code...
I've reached out to see if I can get control of the SA code and
escalated this to the ASF Board of Directors. This is unbelievable.
Regards,
KAM
On 5/27/2015 6:59 PM, Joe Quinn wrote:
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?
