It does not explicitly give out a list on that page (to get that you need an account), but from a read it seems to say GPL-compatible which BSD is.
The repository has a very explicit goal: The expressed purpose of advancing free software that can run in free operating systems. Licenses aside, the answer to the question if a project is suited for Savannah is likely answered by looking at that goal.
I wouldn't trust SourceForge at all after all the horrible stuff they've done. I know they have allegedly improved after new owners and a come-to-jesus moment, but damn, that was some shady shit.
I think you are thinking about the old and nasty sourceforge. They have since been bought and the new owners have changed what nasty old sourceforge used to be
We're a small independently owned private company, and not a single person responsible for those decisions made years ago is still involved with the company. It's been over 3 years since we bought SourceForge and we reversed all the bad decisions on day 1 and never looked back. We still support Mercurial https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mercurial/#pub...
But why buy such a tarnished trademark which has garnered so much ill will over the years for horrible practices? Is it a form of "all PR is good PR", that it's better to have a recognized but hated name than to have a name nobody knows of?
at RhodeCode we used to have a hosted Mercurial repositories service. Actually, it was a per-customer isolated instance that we hosted on digital ocean. We have all the logic and code still here, i wonder if we should bring that back to have people host their Mercurial repositories.
Still, at least SourceForge still has Mercurial support!