Savannah is a hosting facility for the free software movement. Our mission is to spread the freedom to copy and modify software.

Important: check Project - How to get it approved quickly
It contains a few advices to get your package compliant with our hosting policies. Following them will considerably speed up the registration process.

You are welcome to host your project in Savannah if it falls within one of these groups:

Software Project: A Free Software package that can run on a completely free operating system, without depending on any non-free software. You can only provide versions for non-free operating systems if you also provide free operating systems versions with the same or more functionalities. Large software distributions are not allowed; they should be split into separate projects.
Free Documentation Projects: Documentation for Free Software programs, released under a Free Documentation License.
Free Educational Textbook Projects: Projects aimed to create educational textbooks, released under a Free Documentation License.
FSF/GNU projects: Internal projects of the FSF and projects that have been approved by the coordinator of the GNU project, Richard Stallman.
GNU/Linux User Groups (GUG): Organisational project for your user group. GUG need to be listed at GNU Users Groups page - contact user-groups@gnu.org for details.

In the following 5 registration steps you will be asked to describe your project and choose a Free License for it. Your project does not have to be part of the GNU project or be released under the GPL to be hosted here, but if you want to take the opportunity to make your project part of GNU, you can request that later on in the registration process.

To keep compatibility among Savannah projects, we only accept Free Software licenses that are compatible with the GPL. The list of GPL-compatible licenses covers several of the most commonly used licenses; if you are not familiar with that list, please take some time to read GPL-Compatible, Free Software Licenses.

Keep in mind that your project is not approved automatically after you follow the registration steps, but it will have to be evaluated by one of the Savannah administrators. That process may take from one day to a week, depending on the current number of pending projects.

To ease handling the large number of projects we receive, whenever we ask you to provide more information that we think is missing from your registration or when we ask you to make some changes, your registration will be removed and you will have to register your project again after the changes are done. This does not imply that we are reluctant to host your project; it is fairly common for projects to undergo more than one registration before they are finally approved, so please be prepared for that.