Hi, I am considering registering a scientific simulation software project on savannah.nongnu.org, which in comparison to other public git hosting facilities[1] seems to be the best match, with web space for a project homepage, mailing list, and project hosting software under a FLOSS license.
The simulation package is licensed under the GPL. The program contains a simulation backend that uses GPGPU for acceleration, which is compiled with the NVIDIA CUDA compiler and links against the non-free CUDA libraries (CUDA driver and CUDA runtime). The GPL v3 includes an exception clause that allows linking to non-GPL "System Libraries", e.g. libraries accompanying the compiler. It would seem that the CUDA libraries fulfill the definition of "System Libraries" and thus fall under the exception clause[2]. Would a FLOSS project using CUDA be accepted on savannah.nongnu.org? Regards, Peter [1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHosting [2] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2009-August/014816.html
