Free Open Source Project Hosting Services
Project hosting for open source / free software
Free Open Source Project Hosting Services
The facilities listed on this page provide free hosting for software projects, particularly open source software. This usually includes the provision of some sort of version control system for your source code, thereby allowing distributed development, a bug tracker (or "issue tracker" as some prefer to call it), and either a web page or some sort of wiki for your project. Some of them also allow you to upload pre-compiled binaries (executables) of your project for distribution, and the more established hosts come with mirrors for those packages to reduce the load on a single server if your project is popular.
Note that unless stated otherwise, you should assume that these free software hosting facilities reserve the right to place advertisements on your site. There are also limitations on the licences that you may use with many (if not all) of these services. If these limitations or the advertisements are not acceptable, or you need a private source code hosting service open only to the developers of your company, you may prefer to use a commercial software hosting service like DreamHost which come with the facilities for you to easily create your own SVN and CVS repositories.
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Disclaimer
The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk. Just because a program, book, document or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. All the other standard disclaimers also apply.
Free / Open Source Software Project Web Hosts
- SourceForge - Open Source Software Development
SourceForge is probably one of the most well-known web host for open source software. They provide CVS and SVN version control facilities for you to check in your source code. They have a file release facilities through which you offer files and packages for download. Your released packages or files will be mirrored on many file servers across the world. You can also create a website for your project, track bugs, get statistics for your project, collect donations, create user-help forums, mailing lists, and so on. Your project has to be released under one of their approved list of open source licences. In addition, once you check in your code into their system, you will not be able to delete it.
- BerliOS - The Open Source Mediator
Berlios provides CVS, SVN, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, etc. Your project has to be released under one of their approved list of open source licences.
- Google Code - Project Hosting
Google Code provides SVN version control for your source code, issue (bug) tracking, a wiki for your project that you can customise, etc. At the time I write this, it doesn't have the plethora of facilities that some of the other open source project hosting sites provide. Only open source projects, released under one of their approved list of licences, are allowed here.
- CodePlex - Open Source Project Housing
Microsoft's open source project housing, CodePlex, provides hosting for open source code software projects. Source code is checked into their server using either SVN or one of the other suggested clients listed on their site. You also get a wiki for your project. There is a file size limitation of 100 MB.
- Launchpad - Free Software Hosting and Development Website
Canonical, the organisation behind the well-known Ubuntu Linux distribution, also runs a free software project hosting facility called Launchpad. The latter provides CVS and SVN source code version control, a mailing list with public archives, bug tracking, etc. Your software must be distributed under one of the approved open source licences.
- GNU Savannah and Non-GNU Savannah
Savannah hosts software projects that are either part of the GNU Project, or GNU software, or are free software that runs on free operating systems like Linux and the BSDs. Your software must be open source with no proprietary dependencies. This project host provides a bug tracker, CVS, GIT, etc.
- Tigris - Open Source Software Engineering
Projects hosted on Tigris must fit into the their mission of providing open source software engineering tools. Your licence also has to be one of the OSI approved open source licences. To get your project hosted here, you will have to apply to their administrators with a proposal for your software. The host provides CVS access, an issue tracking tool, etc.
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