SourceForge has sworn off its ways of wrapping “unmaintained” code from open source projects in installers that offer bundled commercial products in the wake of objections raised by some open source ...

“Hi Folks. I’ve just discovered that C|Net’s Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a trojan installer which does things like ...

Anti-circumvention is only one part of the DMCA. There's also a lot of rules regarding hosting of content that violates copyright or trademark rights and the ways to get that content taken down. No, ...

When he discovered that Nmap was being distributed by C|Net’s Download.com site bundled up with a proprietary trojan installer that installed a sketchy toolbar, changed the users’ default search ...

Open source software download site SourceForge has come under criticism again, this time for allegedly taking over the account of the Nmap security auditing software, according to its developer in an ...

Fyodor (Nmap's original author) is an angry man right now. The download.com website has added a wrapper to Nmap and other downloads to install various additional components; the wrapper is also ...