Terms of Service for sos!git

On this page rules specific to StarOpenSource Git are specified. These rules are based on the General Terms of Service and must be followed as well. Specific rules on this page may override certain General ToS rules.

§1 Repository size limit

Repositories may not be more than 256 MiB (268435456 bytes) in size.

Accidental violations may result in repository termination until the problem has been resolved in some kind of fashion. Intentional violations will result in the permanent and irreversible deactivation of all accounts of the violating party on all of StarOpenSource's services.

§2 Disallowed issues or pull requests

Off-topic, distracting, spam or useless issues or pull requests are not allowed. These disrupt the development cycle and take up precious developer and maintainer time for no good value.

Violations will first result in a warning, after that the permanent and irreversible deactivation of all accounts of the violating party on all of StarOpenSource's services.

§3 FOSS and OSI-/StarOpenSource-approved licenses

Only completely free and open source software may be distributed on StarOpenSource Git. These must be licensed under an OSI- or StarOpenSource-approved license. All dependencies and runtimes the program bundles and uses must be licensed under an allowed license as well.

Wrappers and sandboxes are excluded, as they may wrap around proprietary software and may be required for a software to function in a safe way.

Accidental violations will not be punished as long as the affected repository is cleaned of the problematic license, dependency or runtime in the latest commit on all branches. Otherwise, it will be counted as an intentional violations. These will result in the permanent and irreversible deactivation of all accounts of the violating party on all of StarOpenSource's services.