On Sat, Nov 08, 2025 at 02:06:07AM +0000, cat wrote: > Hey, just wondering, I host a Gentoo GNU/Linux overlay (third > party package repository) and wanted to mirror it from a private > git repo to GNU savannah. Then I can contact gentoo maintainers > and have the savannah used as my overlay's upstream.
It depends. Savannah has no resources to host distributions or similarly large projects. > All my build scripts are licensed GPL-3.0-only, Savannah hosting requirements is compatibility with GPLv3 and any later version; GPLv3-only won't do. > but I do have one > or two packages that I host with either source available license > or no license at all (in this case, it is software from 1970s > revived through some digital necromancy). Would I be okay to host > on savannah? The gentoo user would have to opt-in consent to the > license, and I am not hosting the dubiously licensed software > myself - just providing the build instructions for Gentoo > GNU/Linux's portage to compile it with, so I would like > clarifications on this. I would suggest that the build instructions effectively depend on those packages (I admit that the analogy may be incomplete, though); proprietary dependencies are not allowed.
