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to provide a clean reinstall of the software. When this server was put in place, after a four-month outage without any public news, only Free Software Foundation employees had access to it. Notably savannah-hackers had no access and found out that
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Project owners do not have the freedom of deleting their submitted projects on their own wish and the staff has a policy of refusing all deletion requests, unless the project was approved by mistake or has always been empty.
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because it was "seriously maintained". In response, Vincent Caron, Loïc Dachary and Mathieu Roy put up an alternative instance of the software called
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GNU Savannah was totally or partly offline for months and, ultimately, did not move to GForge, which itself turned into proprietary software.
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Puszcza - a sister software development hosting site of GNU Savannah maintained by long-time GNU volunteer Sergey Poznyakoff in Ukraine
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took interest in the sourcecode and hired Mathieu Roy, a savannah-hacker, to work in Geneva. It led to the development of
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projects and has very strict hosting policies, including a ban against the use of non-free formats (such as
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Loïc Dachary installed SourceForge on a server located in Boston for the benefit of the
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The levitating, meditating, flute-playing gnu logo used by GNU Savannah
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initiated by Loïc Dachary, which serves as a collaborative
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Free Software Foundation
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free Software
CVS
GNU arch
Subversion
Git
Mercurial
Bazaar
SourceForge
GNU Project
SourceForge
GitHub
free software
Adobe Flash
free software license
GNU Project
CERN
Savane (software)
Vincent Caron
Free Software Foundation
Richard M. Stallman
GForge
Gna!
Debian Social Contract
Free and open-source software portal
Savane (software)
Gna!
Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

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