Yeah, nobody could quite believe SF would be this brazen. See Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/ Note that this is not a case of a project adding adware for some supporting income (as Filezilla does, and LMMS used to do this) - this is SF just hijacking a pile of projects' good names. On 28 May 2015 at 14:33, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nevermind, just read the response from sourceforge (sorry, it's me not > knowing all of the information). They suck. > > https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/j > > Well, our page still links to GitHub, so we should be in the clear. Good > work Toby for getting the remaining releases off of SF and on to GitHub. > > - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Tres Finocchiaro > <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'd kindly ask everyone to report abuse using the support page: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/support >> >> Those Gimp binaries are downloaded over 1,000 times a day. >> >> In regards to blaming sourceforge for this, we don't know that for sure, >> so be careful to blame them for this without knowing all of the information. >> >> -Tres >> >> - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:33 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe >>> >>> They just took the GIMP for Windows project, locked out the maintainer >>> and started serving a malwared .exe. >>> >>> Nonapology for malware: >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/ >>> >>> I see LMMS has all .exe files off there at last, so ... just in time? >>> >>> How movable are the remaining functions, e.g. this list? >>> >>> >>> - d. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LMMS-devel mailing list >>> LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
