Does CollabNet own Subversion?
No, Subversion is an open source product produced by a vibrant open source community. CollabNet has been the primary commercial sponsor of the project since its inception. That has included consistently employing several full-time developers on the project as well as providing the development infrastructure to support the community’s efforts. CollabNet has also provided its legal resources to help the community enforce its rights and provided marketing resources to help Subversion get the recognition that it rightly deserves as the fastest growing version control tool in the market. The project has an Apache/BSD-style license which is fully compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. In other words, you are free to download, modify, and redistribute Subversion as you please with no permission required from anyone else.
