Well, it is not a large project. I can relicense to GPLv3 or later for most of the packages, but some are derivative of others and are GPLv2-only. Unfortunate that I cannot host my overlay on savannah, but I expected that.
On November 10, 2025 4:36:33 PM GMT, Ineiev <[email protected]> wrote: >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.
