We recently relocated the code base to UCSC’s dFroge code management system. This will make code management a bit easier on the metavid developers. The dforge system is analogous to sourceforge in function, but is being hosted by UCSC. The underling source code for the UCSC system is gForge which is also open source. The site primarily hosts university projects but is open to collaboration from other non-university participants and the source code is publicly available for many of the projects hosted on UCSC dForge.
In this context the university institution is creating a space for public knowledge exchange and production. This is in contrast to the university institution being treated as a government subsidized research lab for development of exclusive IP for interested corporate parties.