The repo is copied from that on sourceforge. The original repo is http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Following is the readme of original repo:
/*FreeMind - A Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps
*Copyright (C) 2005 Christian Foltin.
*
*See COPYING for Details
*
*This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
*modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
*as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
*of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
*This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
*but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
*MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
*GNU General Public License for more details.
*
*You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
*along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
*Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Created on 12.06.2005
*/
To build FreeMind from the sources you need ant from
http://ant.apache.org/
After having installed ant, try some of the instructions:
ant dist
- to compile the sources
ant post
- to create a new delivery version
ant run
- to start FreeMind from the sources.